North Korea's army of trolls

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Secretive state employs 3,000 staff to rubbish South Korea and hack South Korean websites

The North Korean state employs more than 3,000 people to spread propaganda, attack neighbouring South Korea in online posts and hack foreign websites - while denying internet access to its own citi...

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