Earlier this month Anonymous threatened North Korea with a cyber war if the country’s leader Kim Jong-un does not resign and install free democracy in the territory.
The initiative, called “Operation Free North Korea” has also demanded that North Korea abandon all nuclear programs and to give uncensored and universal internet service to all its citizens.
Since that time, members of Anonymous have gained access to North Korea’s local intranets, mail servers and web servers and have published 15,000 membership records from the website of North Korea’s Kim Il Sung Open University, which is run from China.
Anonymous has always carried out a series of distributed denial-of-service attacks against government-related websites in North Korea under the banner of the South Korean branch of Anonymous and most recently have shut down Uriminzokkiri, a state run website that provides Korean language news and propaganda from North Korea’s central news agency and have breached the state-run website’s Twitter and Flickr accounts.
You can watch their announcement of the operation below, followed by the accompanying press release.
PRESS RELEASE:
Anonymous Operation North Korea. Press Release (#opNorthKorea). A message from Anonymous to the Government of North Korea.
Hello, citizens of the world. We are Anonymous.
North Korean government is increasingly becoming a threat to peace and freedom. Don’t misunderstand us: As well we disagree with the USA government too – these guys are crooks, USA is a threat to world peace too, and direct democracy or any kind of democracy doesn’t exist there.
The American government is a target and enemy of Anonymous as well! This is not about country vs country. This is about we, the people, the 99% of USA and of North Korea vs oppressing and violent regimes, like USA gov and North Korean gov! We, the people, are gathering together because we are stronger now and we won’t fight your wars anymore, we won’t eat your shit anymore!
We demand:
– North Korean government to stop making nukes and nuke-threats
– Kim Jong-un to resign
– It’s time to install a free direct democracy in North Korea
– Uncensored internet access for all the citizens!To Kim Jong-un:
So you feel the need to create large nukes and threaten half the world with them?
So you’re into demonstrations of power, here is ours:
– We are inside your local intranets (Kwangmyong and others)
– We are inside your mail servers
– We are inside your web serversEnjoy these few records as a proof of our access to your systems, random innocent citizens, collateral damage, because they were stupid enough to choose idiot passwords, we got all over 15 000 membership records of www.uriminzokkiri.com and many more. First we gonna wipe your data, then we gonna wipe your badass dictatorship “government”.
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