North Korea

Computers

Microsoft disrupts North Korean hacker group called Thallium

Microsoft has detected a network of cyberattacks originating from a North Korean hacking group dubbed Thallium. It is the fourth nation-state group Microsoft has identified deploying malicious cyberactivity, following Russia, China and Iran.

South Korea is reportedly looking into crippling North Korea's nuclear program, using a Stuxnet-like virus (Image: Shutterstock)

Infectious Diseases

South Korea pushes for cyber weapon to undermine North Korean nuclear facilities

According to a report from Yonhap News Agency, South Korea has announced its intention to create a sophisticated cyberwarfare virus designed to undermine North Korea's advancing nuclear program.

Rogue nuclear tests can be detected in GPS and radio telescope adjustment noise (Image: Shutterstock)

Military

GPS and radio telescopes can detect and locate rogue nuclear tests

Researchers have found that signatures of rogue nuclear tests appear in GPS and radio telescope adjustment noise.

A North Korean Unha rocket reportedly carrying a weather satellite exploded 80 seconds after launch, according to US, South Korean and Japanese observers (Image: kovacsf/Shutterstock)

Military

North Korean carrier rocket explodes 80 seconds after launch

A North Korean Unha rocket reportedly carrying a weather satellite exploded 80 seconds after launch, according to US, South Korean and Japanese observers.

Finally the citizens of North Korea can acknowledge the hotel's existence

Holiday Destinations

World's strangest hotel to finally open - maybe

The deeply strange Ryugyong Hotel in the center of North Korea's capital city Pyongyang may finally be finished - 24 years after it was started.

DoDAMM's Super aEgis 2: South Korea's autonomous robot gun turret

Military

South Korea's autonomous robot gun turrets: deadly from kilometers away

Meet the Super aEgis 2, an automated gun turret that can detect and lock onto human targets from kilometres away, day or night and in any weather conditions, and deliver some heavy firepower.