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The RGB is regarded as North Korea's primary intelligence and clandestine operations organ. [4] Although its original missions have traditionally focused on clandestine operations such as commando raids, infiltrations and disruptions, the RGB has since come to control most of the known North Korean cyber capabilities, mainly under Bureau 121 or ...
Bell admits, however, that the intelligence community's knowledge of North Korea's Taepodong-2 program is incomplete. According to Bill Gertz of The Washington Times, CIA sources said North Korea delivered seven shiploads of Scud-C missiles to Egypt between March and April 1996. The missile shipments were part of a 1980s licensing agreement ...
The Ministry of State Security of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea [a] (Korean: 조선민주주의인민공화국 국가보위성) is the secret police agency of North Korea. It is an autonomous agency of the North Korean government reporting directly to the Supreme Leader .
The founder of North Korea's ruling dynasty, an isolationist totalitarian leader named Kim Il Sung, was still building some of the country's first nuclear facilities when Syd Seiler arrived on the ...
North Korea is believed to have replaced its military intelligence chief in December, according to the Yonhap news agency. The South Korean news outlet reported Wednesday that Rim Kwang Il took ...
South Korean media, citing the NIS, reported that North Korea has decided to dispatch a total of 12,000 troops formed into four brigades to Russia. The NIS did not immediately confirm the reports. If confirmed, it would be North Korea's first major participation in a foreign war.
Japan successfully launched a rocket carrying a government intelligence-gathering satellite Friday on a mission to watch movements at military sites in North Korea and to improve responses to ...
Bureau 121 is the largest (more than 600 hackers) and most sophisticated unit in the RGB. [5] [6] [16] According to a report by Reuters, Bureau 121 is staffed by some of North Korea's most talented computer experts and is run by the Korean military. [7]