![]() ![]() These file-sharers used a variety of BitTorrent clients and several IP-addresses that are officially registered to the dictatorial regime. With full Internet connectivity limited to a tiny minority of the population there’s not much BitTorrent sharing going on, but the results are worth reporting.Ī search in the database of BitTorrent monitoring company Scaneye returned 84 titles that were shared from North Korea. ![]() Over the past months we’ve discovered pirates in the most unusual places, from the FBI, through major record labels, to the Vatican.Ĭontinuing down this path we decided to take a look at what’s being shared from North Korean IP-addresses, threats aside. TorrentFreak decided to take a deeper look at the BitTorrent downloads that can be traced back to North Korean IP-addresses and the results are intriguing, yet expected. ![]() Only a choice few are able to connect to the World Wide Web and access all the free information that comes with it. The North Korean moves were seen as a bid to prefect its weapons technology while pressuring the Biden administration to offer concessions like sanctions relief and increasing its leverage in future negotiations with Washington.With only a few hundred IP-addresses North Korea’s Internet presence is rather limited. Pacific territory of Guam and hinted at restarting suspended long-range and nuclear tests. In January, North Korea test-launched a variety of missiles including one capable of reaching the U.S. He said tensions would still deepen as the United States would strengthen military drills with South Korea, which North Korea views as an invasion rehearsal, in response. to slap additional sanctions on North Korea over the satellite launch. Security Council - would make it difficult for the U.N. He suggested that Washington’s strained ties with Moscow and Beijing - both veto-wielding powers at the U.N. military activities.Ĭheong Seong-Chang at the private Sejong Institute in South Korea said that North Korea is expected to launch a rocket carrying a spy satellite ahead of a major political anniversary in April, the birthday of state founder Kim Il Sung, the late grandfather of Kim Jong Un. It remains unclear whether North Korea has developed or secured sufficient levels of cameras to be put on a satellite and enable it to monitor South Korean and U.S. mainland with nuclear weapons.Ī spy satellite is among an array of sophisticated weapons systems that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un vowed last year to develop under five-year military build-up plans. In 2017, North Korea performed three intercontinental ballistic missile tests that demonstrated its potential ability to attack the U.S. He said the second satellite is said to be still in obit but there is no evidence that it has relayed any imagery back to North Korea.Įxperts say the North’s past satellite launches have still improved its missile programs. ![]() Lee said North Korea developed both satellites to spy on its rivals. North Korea says both are Earth observation satellites launched under its peaceful space development program. But Lee said he couldn’t verify the quality of the North Korean cameras because it didn’t release higher-resolution satellite images.Īfter repeated failures, North Korea successfully put its first satellite into orbit in 2012 and second one in 2016. Lee Choon Geun, an honorary research fellow at South Korea’s Science and Technology Policy Institute, said the photos were likely taken when the missile was soaring or reached its apogee. U.S., South Korean and Japanese officials said Sunday they detected a new ballistic missile launch by North Korea, the eighth of its kind this year. North Korea didn’t directly acknowledge any missile launch, but the KCNA statement suggests North Korea fired a rocket or a missile to take space-based photos. It said the test “is of great significance in developing the reconnaissance satellite” and released photos of the Korean Peninsula that appeared to be taken from space. The official Korean Central News Agency said Sunday’s test involved cameras for a reconnaissance satellite conducting vertical and oblique photography of a specific area of Earth. Concerns about a North Korean satellite launch flared after it recently threatened to lift a four-year moratorium on big weapons tests to cope with what it called U.S. The United Nations and others view a satellite launch by North Korea as a cover for tests of missile technology, as ballistic missiles and rockets in satellite lift-offs share similar bodies, engines and other technology. SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea said Monday it tested cameras to be installed on a spy satellite, a suggestion that it’ll likely soon conduct a banned long-range rocket launch to modernize its weapons arsenal and apply more pressure on the Biden administration. ![]()
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