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I got a link to the North Korea shop and they apparently make their own computers. I haven't bought one myself but I'm wondering if LTT can get one for a video or something. Here's the URL and the KP domain which is the North Korean domain. http://www.kftrade.com.kp:8888/#/index/koreagoods/sub/G382/3

This is probably the first place I will over in Microsoft Flight Sim 2020: With Microsoft's new Azure-powered worldwide rendering engine, I really wish they showed-off this game and Forza for the upcoming Xbox first instead of Halo. Also, I can't wait till Steam Summer Sail comes around next year so that I can buy it for 50% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1250410/Microsoft_Flight_Simulator/

This is one of those threads that could get very political so I wouldn't mind if mods locked this thread right after five to ten responses. Source: Reuters Just so everyone knows, the Lazarus Group is responsible for Sony hack in 2014 where they said it was a thin-skinned response from North Korea as retaliation for releasing the movie "The Interview" starring James Franco and Seth Rogen as well as a heist in the Bangladesh Central Bank [more info about the Lazarus group here] Anti-virus companies like Symantec, Kaspersky, and even Microsoft linked Lazarus to North Korea as they found IP addresses from North Korea. The same cybersecurity companies also found the same connections linking WannaCry and Lazarus group saying: From Symantec: Kaspersky: *It's a good thing that none of the banks I have money on got infected by WannaCry. I guess the lack of red color to the New Zealand map suggest that PC in New Zealand has installed Windows Updates. Obviously North Korea will deny this but for a country with so many economic sanctions imposed, it all makes sense why they'll engage in state sponsored cyberattacks especially ransomware attacks where they can hold PCs hostage until people pay up via Bitcoin. Even though the payout for WannaCry ransomware wasn't that lucrative, there are reports especially from North Korean defectors saying that the regime are currently training and employing hackers in order to offset the effects of the UN economic sanctions and to show everyone that they're as powerful if not better than everyone when it comes to cyberespionage. But we can also put the blame on businesses and corporations for using out of date computers. Prior to the WannaCry pandemic, Microsoft has already released a patch for SMBv1 but so many won't even bothered to deploy security updates. As per this NYT article, "The big question is whether Mr. Kim, fearful that his nuclear program is becoming too large and obvious a target, is focusing instead on how to shut down the United States without ever lighting off a missile. “Everyone is focused on mushroom clouds,” Mr. Silvers said, “but there is far more potential for another kind of disastrous escalation.” The US and everyone else should put more focus on ensuring nationwide cybersecurity as massive cyberattacks can lead to global economic crisis. It's such a shame that the US response to the Sony hack is launching a DDOS attack on North Korea which means nothing. In my opinion, since North Korea has fewer computers connected to the real internet they are at an advantage over US as the likes of NSA and DHS will find it useless to create a cyberespionage malware against North Korea since only a few IP addresses from North Korea can be found. 2017 is indeed the year of cybersecurity woes and I think in 2018 it will get much worse. I'm just curious as to what took the DHS so long to declare that WannaCry came from North Korea when major anti-virus companies have been saying that there's a link between Lazarus Group (DPRK) and WannaCry for months. I can't help but bring back these related threads

Not much people over there has internet and those who do can watch documentaries about their leaders and other state run channels. https://www.engadget.com/2016/08/19/north-koreas-manbang-is-state-approved-streaming-service/

Before i get started this is no way intended to excuse or give reason to North Korea's concetraion camps and other horrible things that we don't know about. This is also in no way inteded to glorify one of histories most horrible people. Lastly this is a conspiracy(ish) theory. This may or may not be true i have no idea if it is. And sorry for the clickbaity title Now lets get started. If you have not been under a rock lately in terms of world politics then you know that North Korea recently claimed to detonated a Hydrogon Bomb. And as we know H-bombs are much more powerful then a standered Uranium or Plutonium based bomb. But seismic readings show that the explosion was on par with orther nuclear bombs that they have set off in the past. So we know its not an H-bomb but it is still nuclear. So why is this important? Because North Korea (as far as we know) is the only contry in the world that detonates nuclear weapons. You still might be thinking to your self what does this have to do with Kim? Well first we must take a trip down history lane to the cold. The cold war was cold because it never went hot. And what i mean by that is that it never went nuclear. It always was convtional weapons in the wars that were fought during the time. The only thing the nuclear weapons did was cause peace. Funny right? For somthing that is suppose to cause mass destruction it preveted itself from doing that. This is due to the idea of mutually assured destruction or MAD for short. If you also look back at the 20th century the USA only attacked contries that didn't have nuclear weapons contries such as North korea(1950-1953) Vietnam(1960-197x) And Iraq(1991). Now back to Kim. By now if you don't catch my drift then let me spell it out to you. Kim wants a cold war between the US and North Korea. He plans to do this with the policy of MAD. This is also the chance he has at getting a peace treaty signed with south korea and the US so he can ensure the safety and stabilty of his contry(funny how that happened). He also hopes that this will help the world not pay attention to the concentration canps set up by his father and grandfather. And the reason he doesn't just cut the progam is because he is afraid of a revolution to over throw him. After the treaty is signed he will be viewed as a Hero to north koreans as he is the one that ended the longest war in it's history. So people freed from the camps would likely be more happy about that then revolting after his great political career. In short Kim wants true respect from the interational community and from his own people and this in his mind is the only way to do it. I hoped you liked my theory. Remeber he is still a horrible person and should be overthrown. I hate him and i wish Korea would finnaly be united under the south Korean government. What do you guys think about this do you think it is true? And if you don't believe me one nukes cause peace. Look up "what if nukes were never existed?" on youtube the first video that pops up should be from Alternate History Hub.

Uncertainty reigned another day in the on-going Sony hack-attack mess: Looks like the movie The Interview might not be as doomed as it was last week. Super-lawyer David Boies, who signed on with Sony Pictures Entertainment in the wake of the hack attack that left the studio embarrassed, threatened and financially and legally in jeopardy, says The Interview might be distributed after all. "Sony only delayed this," Boies said on Meet the Presson Sunday. "Sony has been fighting to get this picture distributed. It will be distributed. How it's going to be distributed I don't think anyone knows quite yet." In other words, never mind what Sony said last week. On Wednesday, Sony released a statement saying that it had "no further release plans" for the film, which stars Seth Rogen and James Franco in a comedy about a cockamamie plot to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. North Korea, notorious for paranoia and over-the-top rhetoric, was not pleased. The Hermit Kingdom decided the movie was an actual plot by the USA to kill off their "dear leader," and, according to the FBI, unleashed hackers to unleash chaos on Sony, starting in November. The studio has been struggling to contain the fallout ever since. North Korea denies it had anything to do with the hacking. After the hackers also threatened American theaters, where The Interview was supposed to open on Christmas Day, most major chains pulled the film. Then Sony pulled it, too. This was followed by outraged criticism that Sony had capitulated to cyberterrorists — criticism from the filmmakers, from First Amendment advocates, from politicians and industry leaders, even from George Clooney and President Obama. Sony has tried to defend itself, to little avail, having taken a beating in social media and regular media over its decision. Plus, class-action lawsuits, from its own employees and stemming from the hacking, pile up against its doors. meanwhile, has aggressively pursued the U.S. media, sending "caution" letters warning them against using the huge cache of files and information the hackers have pried out of Sony and leaked, from embarrassing emails to employee medical records. In the "sharply worded letter," reported last week by the New York Times, Boies said the leaked Sony documents are "stolen information" and demanded that the files be ignored, or destroyed if they had already been downloaded. Sony has been urged to release the film for free online on Crackle, the online video site it owns. A New York Post story suggesting the studio was preparing to do that was shot down Sunday, according to CNN, by an unnamed studio spokesman who said Sony is still exploring the options. In fact, the decision to not release the film brought out all sorts of volunteers hoping to talk Sony into releasing it to them. The Dish Network had a secret plan to run the movie, according to Fox Business Network, but those talks fell apart over the weekend. A coalition of independent art-house theaters posted a petition on Change.org offering to show the film in their theaters. "We stand in solidarity with Sony and offer our support to them in defense of artistic integrity and personal freedoms; freedoms which represent our nation's great ability to effect change and embrace diversity of opinion," the petition read. And if that weren't enough, George R.R. Martin, the author of the Game of Throne books on which the popular HBO fantasy series is based, offered his Santa Fe, N.M., theater, the Jean Cocteau Cinema, to show the film. He made the offer on his blog, where he has been railing against Sony's "corporate cowardice" in refusing to release the film. "Come to Santa Fe, Seth, we'll show your film for you," Martin wrote. To all this Sony continues to say little except that they're examining their options. http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2014/12/22/sony-plans-to-eventually-release-the-interview/20754645/

By Cecilia Kang,, Drew Harwell and Brian Fung December 22 at 10:55 PM North Korea’s fledgling Internet access went dark Monday, days after President Obama promised a “proportional response” to the nation’s alleged hack of Sony Pictures Entertainment. The question of who pulled the plug immediately became the stuff of a global cyber-mystery. Was it a shadowy crew of guerrilla hackers, under the flag of Anonymous? A retaliatory strike from the United States? A betrayal from China, North Korea’s top ally and its Web gatekeeper? Or just a technical glitch or defensive maneuver from the Hermit Kingdom itself? On Monday, a State Department official issued a somewhat coy non-denial when asked about U.S. involvement in North Korea’s blackout. The official wouldn’t comment on how the government plans to avenge North Korea’s alleged attack on Sony but added, “As we implement our responses, some will be seen, some will not be seen.” The mystery behind North Korea’s 9 1/2 -hour outage highlights a paradox of modern cyberwarfare: As attacks become more prominent, the combatants — and their motives — are becoming harder to identify. “This is the standard for espionage: Things are murky. It’s not like the movies, where in the last scene someone ties it all together with one long soliloquy,” said James Lewis, a senior fellow at the Strategic Technologies Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. North Korea continues to deny that it was responsible for the hack that hobbled Sony, exposed intimate e-mails from top executives and posted online copies of unreleased films — all efforts in an apparent revenge scheme for “The Interview,” a comedy about two goofballs told to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. After Obama accused the country last week and promised retaliation, North Korean officials at first offered to hold a joint investigation with the United States to find the source of the attack. Then Pyongyang warned through its state-owned news agency that it would fight any retaliation with “our toughest counteraction­ . . . against the White House, the Pentagon and the whole U.S. mainland, the cesspool of terrorism, by far surpassing the ‘symmetric counteraction’ declared by Obama.” On Thursday, researchers began to notice an uptick in attacks against North Korea’s Internet infrastructure. Designed to overload servers and Web sites with a flood of fake traffic, such “denial-of-service” attacks can render entire networks inoperable. The next day, a Twitter account affiliated with Anonymous — the collective behind numerous high-profile hacks — announced that a counterattack against North Korean hackers had begun. “Operation RIP North Korea, engaged. #OpRIPNK,” tweeted the account known as @theanonmessage. (That account was suspended by Twitter on Monday over separate threats it had made to release a sex tape belonging to rapper Iggy Azalea.) On Monday, a separate group, also claiming links to Anonymous, sought credit for the outages. The timing of the two tweets was consistent with statistics tracked by the security research firm Arbor Networks. On Thursday, the company recorded two denial-of-service attacks. The next day it saw four. The wave peaked Saturday and Sunday with 5.97 gigabits of data inundating North Korea’s pipes every second. Late Monday, Dyn Research said North Korea’s Internet access was restored after a nine-hour, 31-minute outage. While it is unclear whether Anonymous played a role in North Korea’s downtime, at least six of the observed ­denial-of-service attacks originated from the United States, Arbor Networks said. But other security experts said hostile code can be adapted from other attacks and filtered covertly through foreign servers. Even basic cyberattacks can use decoys or distractions, including hosts of “zombie” computers or falsified location data, to shake pursuers off the trail. “The actual work of evidence-gathering and prosecution is so much more difficult in the digital world than in the biological world,” said Alec Ross, a senior fellow at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. “Unlike a bullet, something ‘shot’ as a cyberweapon can be reused and repurposed. Obfuscation is much easier, and it’s much easier to distribute an attack.” Some security analysts noted that North Korea’s rudimentary Web pipeline flows directly through the routers of a company called China Unicom, leading some experts to speculate that Chinese hackers were responsible for the blackout. China may have seen the Sony hack as an embarrassing, unauthorized mishap from its small but loud ally, or thought the friction it sparked with the economies of the United States and Japan could be too destabilizing to ignore. “It is quite possible that the Chinese are reminding the North Koreans of who really controls those networks,” Ross said. On Monday, the U.S. envoy to the United Nations called for global partners to hold North Korea accountable for the hack on Sony as well as longtime human rights abuses. “It is exactly the kind of behavior we have come to expect from a regime that threatened to take ‘merciless countermeasures’ against the U.S. over a Hollywood comedy and has no qualms about holding tens of thousands of people in harrowing gulags,” Ambassador Samantha Power said. Doug Madory, director of Internet analysis at Dyn Research, doubted that North Korea took down its own Internet, saying the event was not consistent with a more common outage, like a cut wire or technical error, because the connections struggled for hours to come back online. “This doesn’t look they’re taking themselves down. You’ve got hours and hours of instability, and that comes from somewhere,” Madory said. “It looks like their network is for hours just struggling to stay online, trying to come back, and eventually it’s just over, just down.” But Madory said that attributing blame for something like a distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack is “notoriously difficult,” and that something as unsophisticated as a DDOS attack would be easy to replicate. Some hackers agreed the job wasn’t necessarily a mission- impossible situation. A group of hackers calling itself Lizard Squad, which has claimed knocking Sony’s PlayStation Network and several other gaming services offline over the past few months, tweeted a Web address it called the “North Korea off button.” It also tweeted a message suggesting the blackout would be easy: “Xbox Life & other targets have way more capacity. North Korea is a piece of cake.” Karen DeYoung and Ellen Nakashima contributed to this report.

North Korea's Internet was back up Tuesday after a more than nine-hour outage, according to Dyn Research, a company that monitors Internet performance. The disruption came amid an escalating war of words between the United States and North Korea over a massive cyberattack on Sony Pictures. "Usually there are isolated blips, not continuous connectivity problems. I wouldn't be surprised if they are absorbing some sort of attack presently," Doug Madory, director of Internet analysis at Dyn Research, said when the Internet was down. Matthew Prince, president of CloudFlare, a performance and security company, described the disruption as if "all the routes to get to North Korea just disappeared. "It's as if North Korea got erased from the global map of the Internet," he said. Prince, who also spoke when the Internet was down, told CNN it's well within the realm of possibility that a single individual could have been behind the interruption but said he can't conclude at this point that an attack took place. "If it is an attack, it's highly unlikely it's the United States. More likely it's a 15-year-old in a Guy Fawkes mask," he said. The outage brought down sites run by the Korean Central News Agency and the Rodong Sinmun -- major mouthpieces for the regime -- according to the South Korean news agency Yonhap. There were no problems accessing pro-Pyongyang pages that have servers abroad, Yonhap reported. The United States blames North Korea for the Sony hack; North Korea denies it was involved.The regime is upset over Sony's controversial comedy, "The Interview," which follows a plot to assassinate its leader, Kim Jong Un. The studio decided to pull the film amid threats to moviegoers. U.S. President Barack Obama told CNN on Sunday that the hack was "an act of cybervandalism that was very costly, very expensive" but that he didn't consider it an act of war. He had previously said that the United States would "respond proportionally" to the attack on Sony, without giving specifics. A spokeswoman for the National Security Council declined to comment on the reported outage. A State Department spokeswoman similarly deflected a question about the disruption. "We aren't going to discuss -- you know -- publicly, operational details about the possible response options or comment on those kind of reports in any way, except to say that as we implement our responses, some will be seen, some may not be seen," Marie Harf told reporters. http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/22/world/asia/north-korea-internet/?c=&page=1

This was Literally the most accurate picture i could find for this topic right now :lol: Let's do this together Apparently North Korea is prepared to lend US a hand in finding the actual perpetrators behind the Sony Picture entertainment company hacks the North Korean foreign ministry said: "As the United States is spreading groundless allegations and slandering us, we propose a joint investigation with it into this incident." The Interview had been due to open on Christmas Day. However, after anonymous threats against cinemas, Sony said it was considering releasing it on different platforms such as rumored bit torrent or outside the US dvd release.. Current President of the united states Barack Obama made a statement earlier that the picture not being released due to threat was a mistake & made somewhat clear assumption that North Korea was behind the SPE company hacking A Sony statement said the decision had been based on "the majority of the nation's theatre owners choosing not to screen the film". "Without theatres, we could not release it in the theatres on Christmas Day. We had no choice," the statement added. ouch! Do read this official statement from the Feds: Official FBI Press Release Update Notes on SPE Hacking. Pretty much a tennis court right now, i think a 3rd or even a 4th party has involvement on this whole situation or it could be a clearly formulated attack strategy on to a nation that is from the US to deliberately get involved into a 3rd world country to topple a subtle dictatorship (probably declassified CIA files will be available in the year 2150 or so ), Those are my thoughts , What are your opinions on this whole shenanigan? Please do post your comments down below.. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-30560712 Bonus News US in talk about putting North Korea back on terror list in a CNN interview, President Obama described the hacking as a "very costly, very expensive" He said US officials would examine all the evidence to determine whether North Korea should be put back on the list of state sponsors of terrorism. "I'll wait to review what the finding are," Mr Obama said, adding that he did not think the attack "was an act of war". North Korea had been on the US list for two decades until the White House removed it in 2008, after Pyongyang agreed to full verification of its nuclear sites. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-30568455

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So, everyone who wants to, start making and using profile pic's/avatars themed around the movie The Interview. Post them here!

Just interesting I thought, it was new in my subscription feed. It was just a 33 second teaser. When I refreshed the page after watching to comment (comment area wasn't loading) about them releasing a trailer the day after pulling the film I found that it has been removed from public listing. Here is just the youtube.com extension since the video won't work - /watch?v=s_P2e0zmfgE Sony Just saying... UPDATE Still no theatrical release scheduled but they've released more trailers that say In Theaters 12/25/14

The North Koreans has been developing their own OS, called Red Star Linux, for over a decade. The latest version, Version 3.0, looks a lot like Mac OS X, while its version 2.0 looks like Windows 7. This was developed by The Korea Computer Center (KCC), a major software development center in Pyongyang, and this is leaked by Will Scott, a computer scientist who recently spent a semester teaching at the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (PUST). This includes includes a web browser based on Mozilla that has been re-branded “Naenara,” or “My country.”, and a copy of Wine, a Linux application which privodes you a virtual environment to run Windows applications. http://www.pcworld.com/article/2093780/north-korea-goes-osxlike-with-new-operating-system.html

Im so proud to be a human today! Mankind just took another great step into understanding the universe. North Korea successfully landed a 17y/o astronaut in a spectacular 18h mission on the sun today. He launched alone in his rocket today morning and is expected to return from his glorious mission around evening. While being on the sun he collected some interesting sun spot samples to slove the misteries of life. For full article visit here: http://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2014/01/21/north-korea-lands-first-ever-man-on-the-sun-confirms-central-news-agency/ So what do you guys think, great, hugh? We need more countries like North Korea putting so much efford into those kinds of missions! Do you feel the sarcasm? I hope so...