Posted on Dec 22, 2014
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SGT 94 E Radio Comsec Repairer
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1SG Michael Blount
1SG Michael Blount
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Who is that woman I see walking with Home Boy there? Where he goes, so does she. It's like she's a shadow or something.
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First Sergeant, I think it may be his sister, Kim Yo-jong. Here's an article with more information about her: http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1650100/north-korean-leader-kim-jong-uns-sister-named-senior-official .

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1SG Michael Blount
1SG Michael Blount
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SGT (Join to see) - I KNEW we had a SME on the subject! Judging from their relative physiques, she's been eating table scraps? Again?
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SFC Mark Merino
SFC Mark Merino
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I believe she is glorious sister.
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Capt Brandon Charters
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I have a feeling that losing internet in NK is as much of an economic shift as us having cspan removed from our cable packages.
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1SG Michael Blount
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It's not hard to do if the strongest computer the country's got is a Commodore-64.
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SSG John Erny
SSG John Erny
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1SG Michael Blount, CPL Jesse Still

If i = 1 next x else exit sub
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North Korea without internet? What a shame.
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"Shall we play a game?"
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how about a nice game of chess?
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PO1 Disaster Survivor Assistance Specialist
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OH please...it's not like the Hermit Kingdom had much of a cyber footprint to start with. I'm betting it's all their exterior connections to the real world.
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which is run through China...
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LTC Martin Metz
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Edited 11 y ago
There are only about 1,000 Internet addresses in the country. By comparison, Afghanistan has about 100 times the number of Internet hookups. Almost anyone, from a competent hacker in his mom's basement to the NSA, could have derailed North Korea's minuscule Internet connections. In other words, temporarily taking out the Hermit Kingdom's access to YouTube for 10 hours or so is a weekend project -- not exactly the proportional response you would expect from a country like the United States against our most recent serious act of cyberwarfare / terrorism. Thanks to whomever tried to bring this home to North Korea. Now, when is our own government going to get going?
http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/12/23/us-northkorea-cyberattack-outage-idINKBN0K10HN20141223
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COL Senior Strategic Cyber Planner
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true, and Afghanistan has 3/4G cell connection and places that still have no running water.
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LTC Martin Metz
LTC Martin Metz
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If the blackout was an act of retaliation by the US, it was largely a symbolic one: most of North Korea's hackers are thought to be based in China, and the hackers behind the Sony attack used servers in Bolivia, Thailand, and Singapore. An attack is not the only reason the North Korean connection could have gone down. It could have been overloaded, failed because of maintenance issues, or pre-emptively taken offline by North Korea itself. It also could have been cut off by China, which manages most of the country's connections. If our country's efforts took North Korea off-line for a bit, the Obama Administration is being uncharacteristically quiet about it.
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The only person this affects is the dictator himself and maybe a handful of people. It would be interesting if is actually involved with this since they are North Korea's only "ally."

North Korea is once again throwing a temper tantrum and looking a fool.
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SGT Shaul Funt
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I can't believe that our Administration have some fight left and showing some teeth to North Korea if this is the case more power to them
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It is quite the coincidence
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SGT Shaul Funt
SGT Shaul Funt
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Sir,

I'm just assuming that all 35Q didn't sleep much in the ladt few days...and in not bc the new halo 4 is out...lol
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COL Senior Strategic Cyber Planner
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http://time.com/3673552/nsa-north-korea-sony-hack/

I guess we could call this having insider information?
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SSG (ret) William Martin
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I seriously doubt many NK citizens felt the pain of not having the internet since many of them do not have internet in the first place. I think NK just wants to appear weak to a strong opponent. Its a tactic coined by Sun Tzu but 4 internet portals?
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