> “I want them to understand that if you come at us, it means some of your infrastructure is going down for a while.”
Doing that is one thing, and certainly won't increase your personal safety. Doing that and telling the western press to embarrass them is insanely stupid. Kim Jong-un is widely believed to have ordered the assassination of his half-brother. And you want to threaten the infrastructure of his country? Talk about a keyboard warrior.
It's not infrastructure. He attacked a few propaganda sites aimed at outside audiences. He didn't get into their internal network, which is sealed off from the Internet.
Actual North Korean state sponsored hackers operate from embassies abroad, not from domestic locations. They also hire "security companies" in places like India and China to do a lot of the dirty work.
Doing that is one thing, and certainly won't increase your personal safety. Doing that and telling the western press to embarrass them is insanely stupid. Kim Jong-un is widely believed to have ordered the assassination of his half-brother. And you want to threaten the infrastructure of his country? Talk about a keyboard warrior.
PBS Frontline's special on the assassination:
https://www.pbs.org/video/north-koreas-deadly-dictator-2pobw...