The Insane World Of North Korean Hackers

0:00 Intro
0:54 Chapter 1: Growing Up In North Korea
6:56 Chapter 2: North Koreas Hacking History
9:23 Chapter 3: The Lazarus Group
11:55 Chapter 4: Life As A Cyber Warrior
14:07 Chapter 5: Defecting In North Korea

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In December 2016, hundreds of high school students from around the world gathered in Hong Kong for a global competition. These students were the top math talents from their countries, participating in one of the world's most prestigious events, the Mathematical Olympiad.

Among them was a team from one of the world's most secretive and secluded countries: North Korea.

Six young men stepped forward, dressed in white dress shirts and black pants, with loyalty badges of the Kims pinned over their hearts. Among them was Jong Yol-ri, visibly more anxious than his peers. While his teammates smiled, Jong Yol kept glancing to the side, worried about something far more important than solving equations: his freedom…

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[Arylist]

Building your own solar panel is crazy ngl

[zulu]

"He has still not seen his parents since he defected" hit me pretty hard.

[dvd]

He went to Colombia and saw the latinas and thought "F*** North Korea"

[Cipher-HD]

Nuances/Corrections:

2013 IMO was in Santa Marta Not Bogota
End Of Video - He was born in 1998 (unsure of month) making him 25-26 not early 30's.

Will come back and continue adding if there are anymore significant ones :)

[isaacplorins]

Any video shedding light on North Korea is top notch. When it comes with this quality, it’s top of YouTube notch. This is why YouTube exists.

[Riiiley]

Colombian women saved that man’s soul. Lets be real

[Sir_jellyfish]

I am a Korean. He currently is a teacher at a private academy in Seoul. The teacher who taught me MO in Korea works with him at the same academy.

[mog]

"He has still not seen his parents since he defected" They are almost certainly dead. After defection, his immediate family, siblings, most likely even his grandparents were all be rounded up, tortured and interrogated, but put into work camps instead of executing them (so they could be used to possibly capture him if he tried to contact them from the South). Lasting more than a few years working 12 hours of backbreaking labor a day while being fed under 400 calories a day (plus the odd rat, patch of grass, etc) almost guarantees that no one in his family survived more than a few years. There is no parole. That's the impossible choice you face with defecting. Could you do it? My mind can barely handle the implications if I were to be in the same situation.

[MercuryKurogane]

I hope that whatever he's doing now makes him happy and that he is safe. It took a lot of courage from him to escape, though it's heartbreaking about the ending with his parents. I'm sure he regrets leaving them.

[notahooman-qq]

Imagine the government makes money from hacking others.
What a time to be Alive 😂

[jt]

Something I found fascinating was that these kids don't seem to be innate geniuses per se, they just live a life for this one thing. His dad made him do math problems instead of letting him be a kid, then this whole infrastructure behind him to succeed. There are no superhumans. Just a set of circumstances that corroborate results.

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