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North Korea is building a new facility at its Yongbyon nuclear complex that is similar to a known uranium enrichment site, says the International Atomic Energy Agency
https://www.dw.com/en/is-north-korea-boosting-its-nuclear-capabilities/a-7295378…

Is North Korea boosting its nuclear capabilities?
North Korea is building a new facility at its Yongbyon nuclear complex that is similar to a known uranium enrichment site, says the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

North Korea Will Send 5,000 Workers to Russia, Kremlin Says - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/world/europe/north-korea-workers-russia.html

South Korea Plans $22 Billion Extra Budget as Tariffs Hit Growth (Heesu Lee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-19/south-korea-plans-22-billion-extra-budget-as-tariffs-hit-growth
http://www.memeorandum.com/250619/p2#a250619p2

North Korea targeting Indian crypto job applicants with malware https://therecord.media/north-korea-india-crypto-applicants

#DH2028 will be in South Africa! Congratulations Menno, Juan and DHASA! Now we're learning about #DH2026 in Daejon, South Korea https://dh2026.adho.org

🇰🇷 Why South Korean young men and women are more politically divided than ever
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2025-07-03/why-south-korean-young-men-and-women-are-more-politically-divided-than-ever…

Why South Korean young men and women are more politically divided than ever
In South Korea, right-leaning young men are less likely to focus on North Korea than feminism, which — for them — has become a dirty word.

Energy Spectrum and Mass Composition of Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Rays Originating from Relativistic Jets of Nearby Radio Galaxies
Jeongbhin Seo (Department of Physics, College of Natural Sciences, UNIST, Korea, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Theoretical Division, USA), Dongsu Ryu (Department of Physics, College of Natural Sciences, UNIST, Korea), Hyesung Kang (Department of Earth Sciences, Pusan National University, Korea)

Energy Spectrum and Mass Composition of Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Rays Originating from Relativistic Jets of Nearby Radio Galaxies
Relativistic jets of radio galaxies (RGs) are possible sources of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs). Recent studies combining relativistic hydrodynamic simulations with Monte Carlo particle transport have demonstrated that UHECRs can be accelerated to energies beyond $10^{20}$ eV through shocks, turbulence, and relativistic shear in jet-induced flows of Fanaroff-Riley (FR) type RGs. The resulting time-asymptotic UHECR spectrum is well modeled by a double power law with an ``extended'' expo…

North Korea supplied Russia with 12 million rounds of 152mm shells, South Korean intelligence estimates: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/13/north-korea-supplied-russia-with.html

Three dead as South Korean region hit by most rain in 120 years #SouthKorea

Three dead as South Korean region hit by most rain in 120 years
At least three people were killed and more than 1,000 evacuated Thursday after South Korea was hit by torrential rains, officials said, with one region pummeled by the most rainfall per hour since full records began.

Samsung Electronics Chair Jay Y. Lee wins a full reprieval from South Korea's Supreme Court in a protracted fight over fraud and stock manipulation allegations (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/south-…

Enhancing eLoran Timing Accuracy via Machine Learning with Meteorological and Terrain Data
Taewon Kang, Seunghyeon Park, Pyo-Woong Son, Jiwon Seo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15235 …

Enhancing eLoran Timing Accuracy via Machine Learning with Meteorological and Terrain Data
The vulnerabilities of global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) to signal interference have increased the demand for complementary positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) systems. To address this, South Korea has decided to deploy an enhanced long-range navigation (eLoran) system as a complementary PNT solution. Similar to GNSS, eLoran provides highly accurate timing information, which is essential for applications such as telecommunications, financial systems, and power distribution. Howev…

Korea seems to be a new epicenter for cyberattacks, with a bunch of luxury brands, a giant telco, and now a major insurance company hit with ransomware attacks. If it were an English-speaking company, it would all seem very Scattered Spider-esque.
https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/e…

SGI scrambles to recover from ransomware attack
Seoul Guarantee Insurance (SGI) plans to operate an around-the-clock response center and compensate all losses from a recent ransomware attack, the company said Wednesday. The measures are the latest...

AI-designed material captures 90% of toxic iodine from nuclear waste. Groundbreaking research in South Korea showcases the power of artificial intelligence in environmental cleanup. #climatechange #climatesolutions

AI-designed material captures 90% of toxic iodine from nuclear waste
AI‑driven discovery of a copper‑chromium‑iron‑aluminum compound could revolutionize nuclear iodine cleanup.

Russia's Lavrov cautions West on North Korea security pact: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/12/russias-lavrov-cautions-west-on.html

Elliptic estimates cross-chain criminal and high-risk activity has topped $21.8B in 2025, up from $7B in 2023; North Korea is responsible for ~12% of the total (Yohan Yun/Cointelegraph)
https://cointelegraph.com/news/crosschain-swaps-move-21b-…

Friday Links 25-10
This week I enjoyed the podcasts about Lise Meitner and Korea.
OpenRailwayMap is also nice to play around with, if you are interested in railways all over the world.
https://christof.damian.net/2025/06/friday-links-25-10.html

Friday Links 25-10
This week I enjoyed the podcasts about Lise Meitner and Korea.  OpenRailwayMap is also nice to play around with, if you are interested in ra...

Korea Journal special issue - Anticommunism in South Korea
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CFP: The (After) Lives of Things: Deconstructing and Reconstructing Material Culture, Association of…
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Turns out North Korea doesn’t lie about everything, at least not the weather. Kim Jong Un upgraded their forecasting system, added real meteorologists to state TV, and pushed for accurate alerts to protect crops and people from floods and droughts.
Meanwhile, during Trump’s second presidency, Texas is underwater and the National Weather Service was struggling with staff cuts and balloon shortages. North Koreans got valid forecasts about their own country while Americans were stuck with…

Louis Vuitton says customers in Turkey, South Korea and UK impacted by data breaches https://therecord.media/louis-vuitton-says-customers-impacted-by-data-breaches

Inside a phone smuggled out of North Korea #privacy

Governance and Technological Challenge in Digital Solidarity Economies: A Case Study of a Collaborative Transportation Platform in South Korea
Jeongone Seo, Tawfiq Ammari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04166

Governance and Technological Challenge in Digital Solidarity Economies: A Case Study of a Collaborative Transportation Platform in South Korea
South Korea's City P illustrates how lofty goals of digital solidarity can falter when challenged by local governance realities. Drawing on Hansmann's ownership theory, collaborative governance concepts, and platform cooperativism, we conducted a qualitative case study involving policy documents, independent assessments, and 11 in-depth interviews with residents, officials, and technology developers. Findings reveal a marked disconnect between the initiative's stated emphasis on community co-ow…

North Korea to send up to 30,000 more troops to aid Russia's war against Ukraine, CNN reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/02/north-korea-to-send-up.html

Präsidentschaftswahl in der Republik #Korea, Exit Polls:
• Lee Jae-myung 51,7 %
• Kim Moon-soon 39,3 %
• Lee Jun-seok 7,7 %

Imagine spending years as an intelligence officer, working diligently to subvert the Kremlin,
only to watch the US stand with Russia, Iran and North Korea,
as it did in February when it voted against a UN resolution condemning the invasion of Ukraine.
In that moment, Tim Weiner said: “You come to the realization, if you hadn’t already:
‘My God, the president of the United States has gone over to the other side. He has joined the authoritarian axis.’”

Tag 12 von #MeinCamino2025
Heute ging es ziemlich weit nach oben auf die Spitze des O Cebreiro. 28 km von Villafranca del Bierzo aus von 498 auf 1290 Meter Höhe. Belohnt wurde der heftig rinnende Schweiß mit grandiosen Aussichten. Am Abend hatten wir dann mit einem Philosophielehrer aus Korea eine schöne Pilgermesse in der Kirche Santa Maria la Real. Danach gab es leckeren Tintenfis…

Those of us who have to pay US Federal taxes on a quarterly basis may find it rather disgusting that the June 16 payment is due two days after FFOTUS self-indulgent, expensive, North Korea style, imperial parade.

South Korea police detain six Americans trying to send cash, rice to North Korea (Ju-min Park/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/south-korea-police-detain-six-americans-trying-send-cash-rice-north-korea-2025-06-27/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250627/p153#a250627p153

Couldn't #Israel be hit with long-range nuclear-tipped missiles from North Korea? With a skillful trajectory, individual missiles would probably have a good chance of hitting.
Does Behemoth #Netanyahu have any idea what he can trigger with his firing and now war?
And all this just so he can esc…

Korea Journal special issue - Anticommunism in South Korea
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APPLY: LGBTQ Religious Archives Network Fall Intership—$1500 Stipend Riot Mueller 07/25/2024 -…
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North Korea already using Russian Pantsir missiles to defend Pyongyang, Ukraine's intelligence chief says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/01/north-korea-already-using-russian.html

The Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned Song Kum Hyok (Song), a malicious cyber actor associated with the sanctioned Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) Reconnaissance General Bureau (RGB) hacking group Andariel.
https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-rel…

Sanctions Imposed on DPRK IT Workers Generating Revenue for the Kim Regime
WASHINGTON — Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned Song Kum Hyok, (Song), a malicious cyber actor associated with the sanctioned Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) Reconnaissance General Bureau (RGB) hacking group Andariel.Song facilitated an information technology (IT) worker scheme in which individuals, often DPRK nationals working from countries such as China and Russia, were recruited and provided with falsified ident…

'Aaron Fritschner, deputy chief of staff for Rep. Beyer (D-Va.) observed that Trump's tariff letter to S. Korea was a violation of the KORUS trade agreement between S. Korea and the U S that was ratified by Congress in 2007, under Bush's administration. "The Constitution gives control of trade policy entirely to Congress, POTUS has no legal authority to do this"'
'Utter buffoon': 'Senile' Trump mocked over letters he had 'no legal authority' to send - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/trump/trump-mocked-senile/

Reconstructing North Korea's Plutonium Production History with Bayesian Inference-Based Reprocessing Waste Analysis
Benjamin Jung, Johannes Bosse, Malte G\"ottsche
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03865

Reconstructing North Korea's Plutonium Production History with Bayesian Inference-Based Reprocessing Waste Analysis
Although North Korea's nuclear program has been the subject of extensive scrutiny, estimates of its fissile material stockpiles remain fraught with uncertainty. In potential future disarmament agreements, inspectors may need to use nuclear archaeology methods to verify or gain confidence in a North Korean fissile material declaration. This study explores the potential utility of a Bayesian inference-based analysis of the isotopic composition of reprocessing waste to reconstruct the operating hi…

Lily Cheng, NIMBY councillor of #Willowdale in Toronto went to South Korea.
What did she learn? She learned about sleek parking infrastructure. In South Korea! Speak about missing the forest for the trees
Also Toronto transit isn't randomly underdevelopped, it's something she can actually influence as a councillor. She's saying that as if it just happened and th…

President Trump announces 25% tariffs on Japan and South Korea, starting August 1 (Kevin Breuninger/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/07/trump-tariffs-trade-letters-japan.html

Trump announces steep tariffs on five more countries starting Aug. 1
The United States will impose 25% blanket tariffs on imports from Japan and South Korea starting Aug. 1, President Donald Trump revealed.

When DJ Cummerbund made this mashup in 2020 I did take notice that one of the acts was "BTS Skytrain" but I just assumed this was just some strange relative of Korea's BTS.
Shame on me for not knowing or at least spotting that it was an actual promotional video for Bangkok's mass transit system - which also means I was not able to tell the difference between Thai and Korean people.
My only defence is that they are wearing masks but still…

Some of these big retailer breaches have tended to surface in the Korean press first, now it's Papa John's.
https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2025-06-26/na…

Papa John's Korea confirms customer data breech exposing names, contact info, addresses
Pizza franchise Papa John's Korea has confirmed a customer data breach caused by a security vulnerability, prompting an official investigation by the Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC).

How the Trump administration undermined its own strategic position
A Secret Program Allowed VOA to Broadcast Television into North Korea.
Now It’s Gone.
https://www.cjr.org/news/trump-lake-secret-program-voice-of-ame…

A Secret Program Allowed VOA to Broadcast Television into North Korea. Now It’s Gone.
How the Trump administration undermined its own strategic position.

South Korea's CJ ENM, which produced Parasite, unveils a comprehensive AI content strategy at the premiere of its first fully AI-generated animation series (Naman Ramachandran/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/cj-enm-ai-strategy-cat-biggie-12…

CJ ENM Debuts AI Animation 'Cat Biggie' as Part of New AI Strategy
CJ ENM unveils AI content strategy with debut of 'Cat Biggie,' a 100% AI-generated animation series, plus new proprietary production tools.

Korea Journal special issue - Anticommunism in South Korea
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Wan on Thusi, 'Policing Bodies: Law, Sex Work, and Desire in Johannesburg' Thusi, I.…
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'Tariff Man' Is Back for More 'Liberation' (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/tariffs-south-korea-japan-donald-trump-trade-a9075145
http://www.memeorandum.com/250708/p97#a250708p97

Vertrag bis 2029 - Deal fixiert! Wiener Austria setzt auf Korea-Power #News #Nachrichten

Ransomware attack on ticketing platform upends South Korean entertainment industry https://therecord.media/yes24-south-korea-ransomware-attack

It is a week until the grand Kim Jong Un, oops I mean FFOTUS imperial parade.
(How could I conflate Kim Jong Un's parade with the FFOTUS one? - North Korea does a much better job of putting on mass tributes.)
Anyway, I do hope that DC Metro workers and Uber/Lyft drivers take a sick day off as many of the parade goers will be anti-vaxers with active, infectious Covid or Measles.
Don't forget that on the 14th you should arrive mid-day to your local Metro stop, park in…

Korea Journal special issue - Anticommunism in South Korea
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Manufacturing Revolutions: Industrial Policy and Industrialization in South Korea
Nathan Lane
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.20566 https://

Manufacturing Revolutions: Industrial Policy and Industrialization in South Korea
I study the impact of industrial policies on industrial development by considering an important episode during the East Asian miracle: South Korea's heavy and chemical industry (HCI) drive, 1973--1979. Based on newly assembled data, I use the introduction and termination of industrial policies to study their impacts during and after the intervention period. (1) I reveal that heavy-chemical industrial policies promoted the expansion and dynamic comparative advantage of directly targeted industri…

North Korea Infiltrates U.S. Remote Jobs—With the Help of Everyday Americans
https://www.wsj.com/business/north-korea-remote-jobs-e4daa727

Half of North Korea's first missile shipment to Russia exploded in mid-air — now they strike Ukrainian targets with deadly precision - Euromaidan Press
https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/06/10/half-of-north-koreas-first-missile-shipment-to-russia-exploded-in-mid-air-now-they-strike-ukrainian-targets-with-deadly-precision/

Wow. We live in North Korea, now.
https://www.sfgate.com/california-parks/article/national-parks-negative-history-trump-20343308.php

South Korea becomes Asia's best-performing stock market in H1 2025, as shares rise following President Lee Jae-myung's pledge to allow won-based stablecoins (Song Jung-a/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/4b19bf90-4202-4fe7-8caf-d7db6deeb768…

Crypto-crazy investors make South Korea the best-performing market in Asia
New president’s pledge to allow won-based stablecoins has led to huge gains in related shares this month

Treasury sanctions key player behind North Korean IT worker scheme https://therecord.media/north-korea-it-worker-scheme-us-sanctions-song-kum-hyok

Trump says he will 'get the conflict solved with North Korea' (Trevor Hunnicutt/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/trump-says-he-will-get-conflict-solved-with-north-korea-2025-06-27/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250627/p151#a250627p151

Russia tribunal advances, and North Korea trains soldiers for the Kremlin: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/03/russia-tribunal-advances-and-north.html

The US Treasury's OFAC sanctions individuals and companies linked to North Korea's fake tech worker scheme, including "malicious cyber actor" Song Kum Hyok (Magdalena Del Valle/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Why is the D-party so amazingly lame about communicating to (or with) voters?
Why are they using FFOTUS' terminology of "tariff" rather than the more clearly understood "Federal Sales Tax"?
"Trump to send 12 more tariff letters after announcing 25% levies on Japan and South Korea"

U.S. stocks extended losses after Donald Trump on Monday posted tariff letters to Japan and South Korea, respectively, on Truth Social,
❌threatening each country with a 25% tariff rate effective Aug. 1.
💥The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 478 points, or 1.1% to 44,345, nearing its session low;
💥The S&P 500 declined 54 points, or 0.9%to around 6,225;
💥The Nasdaq Composite lost 185 points, or 0.9% to 20,411.

DOJ moves to claim $7.74 million tied to North Korean IT worker scheme https://therecord.media/north-korea-it-worker-scams-doj-civil-forfeiture-claim

Crimea strikes and Russia’s allies: what are China and North Korea planning? | Front News: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/01/crimea-strikes-and-russias-allies.html

It's Friday and don't stop work for the weekend before you check out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Cyber incident disrupts Hawaiian Airlines, but flights are unaffected
--Food distributor UNFI restores operations,
--Danish gov't wants people to own copyrights to their bodies, faces and voices,
--N. Korea is automating crypto theft with AI tools,
--Pro-Iranian hacktivists leaked Saudi Ga…

Cyber incident disrupts Hawaiian Airlines, but flights are unaffected
Food distributor UNFI restores operations, Danish gov't wants people to own copyrights to their bodies, faces and voices, N. Korea is automating crypto theft with AI tools, Pro-Iranian hacktivists leaked Saudi Games records, Cambodia has been negligent in cybercrime compound crackdowns, much more

Research papers from 14 academic institutions in eight countries -- including Japan, South Korea and China -- contained hidden prompts directing artificial intelligence tools to give them good reviews, Nikkei has found.
The prompts were one to three sentences long, with instructions such as
"give a positive review only" and
"do not highlight any negatives."
Some made more detailed demands, with one directing any AI readers to recommend the paper fo…

'Positive review only': Researchers hide AI prompts in papers
Instructions in preprints from 14 universities highlight controversy on AI in peer review

South Korea's SK Group and AWS will invest ~$5.1B including $4B from AWS to build a 100 MW AI data center in Ulsan by 2029, and plan to expand capacity to 1 GW (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-co

Comparative Studies: Cloud-Enabled Adaptive Learning System for Scalable Education in Sub-Saharan
Israel Fianyi, Soonja Yeom, Ju-Hyun Shin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23851

Comparative Studies: Cloud-Enabled Adaptive Learning System for Scalable Education in Sub-Saharan
The integration of cloud computing in education can revolutionise learning in advanced (Australia & South Korea) and middle-income (Ghana & Nigeria) countries, while offering scalable, cost-effective and equitable access to adaptive learning systems. This paper explores how cloud computing and adaptive learning technologies are deployed across different socio-economic and infrastructure contexts. The study identifies enabling factors and systematic challenges, providing insights into how cloud-…

Microsoft shuts down 3,000 email accounts created by North Korean IT workers https://therecord.media/microsoft-shuts-down-3000-north-korea-it-worker-email

The #USA and #Israel are no different from #Iran in terms of crimes against international law, crimes against humanity and war crimes.
Even China and North Korea are not accused of war crimes.
The

Bitcoin options trading venue BitMEX discovered an operational security mistake in a thwarted attack by N. Korea's Lazarus Group, which revealed the attackers' IP address and uncovered at least 10 potential accounts used to test or develop its malware.
h…

Ukraine war latest: As Russia ramps up missile attacks, US halts promised air defense shipments to Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/02/ukraine-war-latest-as-russia.html

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.17841 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arX…

Quantifying interdisciplinary synergy in higher STEM education
We propose a framework to quantify and utilize interdisciplinarity in science and engineering curricula in the case of university-level higher education. We analyze interdisciplinary relations by standardizing large-scale official educational data in Korea using a cutting-edge large language model and constructing knowledge maps for disciplines of scientific education. We design and evaluate single-field and integrated dual-field curricula by adapting pedagogical theory and utilizing informatio…

It's incredible that the Alberta Premier continues to claim a pipeline to the Northwest (Prince Rupert) is possible. Premier Eby was not there because he was in the middle of a pre-planned trip to Asia (Japan, South Korea, Malaysia). And he said today there won't be any reconsideration of another oil pipeline, "decarbonzed" or not. And Japan has no interest in heavy oil anyway.
"But Eby continued to pour cold water on other premiers' talk of building another oil pipeline across B.C. to the coast, saying there is already the taxpayer-owned Trans Mountain Pipeline, which is not being used to full capacity.
He added that the Japanese don't want heavy oil and thermal coal. And he has not altered his stance against lifting the heavy oil tanker ban on B.C.'s North Coast.”
#CanPoli #ABPoli #SKPoli #ClimateEmergency #ClimateAction #EndFossilFuels #Memes #StarWars

A United States Army veteran who was forced to self-deport to South Korea has told Newsweek he will only return once President Donald Trump leaves office.
Purple Heart veteran Sae Joon Park, who has lived in the U.S. for 48 years, was told by immigration authorities that he had three weeks to leave the country.
"President Trump sucks. I will try to come back after Trump leaves," Park told Newsweek in a statement.

Purple Heart Veteran Forced to Deport After Green Card Revoked
"President Trump sucks. I will try to come back after Trump leaves," Purple Heart vet Sae Joon Park told Newsweek in a statement.

It's impressive how much crypto theft can be automated using ChatGPT to monitor wallets and then automatically pluck out currency.
North Korean hackers automate crypto crime with ChatGPT
https://cointelegraph.com/magazine/chatgp…

In rejecting diplomacy and choosing war, not only in breach of international law but at the behest of a country pursuing annihilation in Gaza, the US has delivered a resounding blow to the architecture of global affairs. It has signalled that countries that negotiate (Iran) face stark consequences, which those which rush to own the bomb (North Korea) can avoid. The cost of this reckless act may not be fully felt or comprehended for decades.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/22/the-guardian-view-on-trump-bombing-iran-an-and-reckless-act?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Bipartisan bill seeks to ban federal agencies from using DeepSeek, AI tools from ‘foreign adversaries’ https://therecord.media/bipartisan-bill-ban-deepseek-federal