N. Koreans 'hack' South game sites

South Korean police said Friday they had arrested six people for hiring female North Korean refugees and ethnic Koreans in China to run sex websites frequented by hundreds of thousands of clients.Police in the southern city of Busan said the six had recruited 500 refugees and 500 ethnic Koreans in China to operate 70 sites, offering sex talk or nude shows, starting in April 2007.Police said 34 others were not detained but would stand trial on similar charges.

Skulls pop up on the screens of some computers — a strong indication that hackers planted a malicious code in systems Computer networks at two major South Korean banks and three top TV broadcasters went into shutdown mode en masse today, paralyzing bank machines across the country and prompting speculation of a cyberattack by North Korea.

North Korea on Sunday lashed out at South Korea for accusing Pyongyang of hacking Seoul online game sites and stealing prize money, rejecting the allegations as an "unacceptable provocation."Seoul police said earlier this month they had busted a criminal gang which hired some 30 elite North Korean computer hackers to break into online game sites and steal prize points worth 6.4 billion won ($5.9 million).They said some of the proceeds for the hackers-- graduates of top colleges in Pyongyang and based in northeast China-- apparently went to the North's regime.

Kim Nam-Hee pulls no punches as she warns a classroom of wide-eyed South Korean 10-year-olds that they stand on the edge of an addiction that will turn them all into "mindless slaves".

SEOUL, South Korea — On Oct. 24, 1995, as a man now known as Kim Dong-sik hiked up a rain-slick mountain road in Buyeo, about 150 kilometres south of Seoul, he could not shake off a foreboding. He and another North Korean agent had sneaked into South Korea by boat 52 days earlier on a mission to bring home a Communist spy who had been working in the South for 15 years. The latest message from their superiors said the spy had been instructed to wait for Kim in a temple in Buyeo, disguised as a Buddhist monk named Jawoon.