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N. Korea denies involvement in hacking of South's
nuclear power operator
2014/12/28 11:30
SEOUL, Dec. 28
(Yonhap) -- North Korea again denied its involvement in the hacking of South
Korea's nuclear power station operator Sunday, calling the allegation "a
trumped-up plot against the communist country."
The state-run Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co. (KHNP) has suffered a series of cyber attacks that has raised safety concerns in a country that relies on 23 nuclear reactors for one-third of its energy needs. Over the past week, an anonymous anti-nuclear group posted a series of documents and operating manuals for a number of South Korean nuclear reactors on the Internet.
The state-run Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co. (KHNP) has suffered a series of cyber attacks that has raised safety concerns in a country that relies on 23 nuclear reactors for one-third of its energy needs. Over the past week, an anonymous anti-nuclear group posted a series of documents and operating manuals for a number of South Korean nuclear reactors on the Internet.
South Korean officials
have not ruled out the possible involvement of North Korea, which has a track
record of waging cyber attacks on major financial institutions, government websites
and media organizations in the South.
"South Korea is
blindly trying to link the recent hacking of its nuclear power stations to
us," said the Rodong Sinmun, an organ of the North's ruling Workers' Party
of Korea. "It is a totally groundless fabrication."
South Korea should first come up with evidence if it wants to blame the incident on North Korea, the newspaper said.
South Korea should first come up with evidence if it wants to blame the incident on North Korea, the newspaper said.
On Saturday, the Minju
Josun, the North Korean cabinet's official newspaper, also denied the North's
involvement in the hacking incident, saying it is the same scheme as the one to
link the 2010 sinking of the South Korean naval corvette Cheonan to the North.
South Korea has
concluded North Korea torpedoed the 1,200-ton South Korean warship near the
tensely guarded West Sea border, killing 46 South Korean sailors. Pyongyang has
denied the attack.
A joint investigation
team of South Korean government and prosecution officials has been looking into
the hacking of the KHNP to determine who is behind the incident. On Wednesday,
the team said a suspect in the hacking attack was found to have used multiple
Internet protocol addresses based in China.
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