North Korea on Sunday rejected allegations by the rival South that it was behind acyber attack that paralyzed the computer network of a South Korean bank last month and accused Seoul of inventing a conspiracy to justify physical confrontation, Reuters has reported.
“The Nonghyup computer network crash is nothing more than a repeat of the Cheonan incident,” the National Defense Commission, the North’s supreme leadership body, said in a statement carried by the official KCNA news agency.
“It is an act akin to digging its own grave that (the South) is running about madly clinging to confrontation with its compatriots through crudely fabricated schemes,” the commission said.
The accusation that North Korean hackers were responsible for bringing down Nonghyup bank was the same type of fabrication as Seoul’s assertion that Pyongyang sank one of its navy ships, Cheonan in March last year, the North Korean government agency said.
The relations between the north and the south of Korea were pushed to the dangerous phase of war due to the “Cheonan” case.
The computer crash at Nonghyup affected millions of customers who were unable to use the bank’s credit cards and ATMs for more than a week, exposing the South’s heavily wired financial system’s vulnerability to organized cyber attacks.
South Korean prosecutors said the hacking was masterminded by a group of North Korean state-backed experts also responsible for previous cyber attacks on government and corporate sites in the South.
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