By Tae-jun Kang
With the creation of a new presidential cybersecurity post, South Korea is getting serious about cyber defense.
South Korea has announced it will create a new presidential post handling cyber security. The move is seen an effort to better prepare Seoul for a possible cyber attack from North Korea.
Presidential spokesman Min Kyung-wook explained at a general briefing on March 31 that the creation of the new presidential post is designed to beef up the country’s control tower over cyber security.
When the computer networks of South Korean broadcasting companies and banks were paralyzed in 2013 in an attack attributed to North Korea, there was a rumor that South Korea’s Blue House was mulling a special post that would cyber security. The Blue House later denied those reports.
In 2014 there were additional cyber attacks: the attack on Sony Pictures, which the U.S. blamed on North Korea, and a separate attack on Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co., which Seoul concluded was also perpetrated by North Korea.
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