Inter-Korea ties may have warmed in recent months after Pyongyang's friendly overtures, but attacks from the regime's cyber army have shown no signs of abating, according to a South Korean expert who tracks their activities.
Mr Choi Sang Myung, director of software firm Hauri Inc and an adviser to the police and National Intelligence Service, said North Korea has continued to groom its team of elite hackers, sending them overseas to countries like China and India to study and learn from experts, and allowing them to subscribe to South Korean tech lectures online.
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