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Part Two: Kim Jong Un and His Family of Dictators

Behind the Bastards

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Hacking in North Korea - The Secret War

North Korea has long had a devoted cadre of hackers attacking South Korean banks and TV stations. Hacking as the country's strongest weapon said another former student, in North Korea it's called the Secret War. The good ones can make $100,000 a year, $90,000 for the regime, $10,000 for themselves. It does sound like the execution that you order if you're a kid who's raised on John Claude Van Dam movies.

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