For North Korea's cyber army, long-term target may be telecoms, utility grids


  • World
  • Friday, 19 Dec 2014

SEOUL (Reuters) - The hacking attack on Sony Pictures may have been a practise run for North Korea's elite cyber-army in a long-term goal of being able to cripple telecoms and energy grids in rival nations, defectors from the isolated state said.

Non-conventional capabilities like cyber-warfare and nuclear technology are the weapons of choice for the impoverished North to match its main enemies, they said.

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