North Korea's recent 'filth balloon' offensive against South Korea highlighted the depth of the paranoia in the regime of Kim Jong Un about information infiltration.
This photo provided by South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff and released by South Korea Defense Ministry, shows a balloon presumably sent by North Korea, on the Han River in Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, June 9, 2024. North Korea flew …SEOUL, South Korea | North Korea’s recent “filth balloon” offensive against South Korea highlighted the depth of the paranoia in the regime of Kim Jong Un about information infiltration.
But the North’s attempts to install digital surveillance networks so far have been hobbled by an inconsistent power supply, limited network capacities and lack of hardware, experts say. Digital networks and networked devices offer authoritarian states not restrained by privacy laws a wide range of methods to keep tabs on their own citizens.
Despite its isolation and poverty, “North Korea has a really high level of aptitude when it comes to software engineering, but it does not have a large hardware industry,” Mr. Williams said. “All its smartphones come from Chinese companies, but the security software on them is all developed domestically.”
“North Korea has been devoting a lot of resources to facial recognition technology,” Mr. Williams said. “It can tell the state who is in a particular place at a particular time.” Six cameras on one state farm scrutinize not only work areas, but monuments celebrating the achievements of the regime. “It’s interesting that they seem to keep those under surveillance,” Mr. Williams said.
Still, North Korea’s digital surveillance systems are “nowhere near” China’s capabilities, Mr. Williams said, hampered by a lack of funds to upgrade its systems.
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