Monday 14 December 2015

Are PUST students potential North Korean hackers?

Pyongyang University of Science and Technology by its nature attracts controversy, even without hacking allegations.

At the university, founded by evangelical Christian Korean-American James Kim, a select group of North Korean students study under the direction of foreign teachers, many of whom are Christians and all of whom do so without pay. The administrators and supporters of the school highlight that it exposes North Koreans to outsiders and new ideas, while detractors question the usefulness of the program, and the school’s role in amplifying North Korea’s structural inequalities by teaching to such an “elite” core group.

And some allegations are more serious: At the end of November, two North Korean defectors, one of whom is believed to have worked in cyber warfare for the regime, alleged that PUST graduates are being recruited by the Korean People’s Army to work in cyber terrorism, and called on supporters of the university to cut ties with it. For the full article click here 



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