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"The Anonymous hacking group is back targeting North Korean websites as part of a plan to raise international awareness of conditions in the country and achieve the lofty goal of forcing leader\u00A0Kim Jong-un\u00A0to resign; but it appears members of the group also knocked out key websites in South Korea.\r\n\r\nThe group hacked into Twitter accounts and Flickr accounts belonging to the country's central news agency in April, but its latest program made a strange start after South Korea's President website was put offline and defaced -- likely to mark\u00A0the 63-year anniversary since the start of the Korean war.\r\n\r\nAnonymous representatives\u00A0posted a Pastebin note with a list of target websites from the country that it is aiming to take offline, but its first takedown was the website belonging to the Blue Office -- as Korea's Presidential administration is known -- and another government site. Both\u00A0crashed offline this morning at 9:30 am local time, as Yonhap News reports, and both remain offline.\r\n\r\nPast South Korean website outages have been blamed on North Korea -- such as the one that\u00A0took out networks at numerous banks in March -- but this attack appeared to be the work of Anonymous, according to details from the Yonhap News report:\r\nFor 10 minutes from 10 a.m., it was posted along with the message, &amp;quot;We Are Anonymous. We Are Legion. We Do Not Forgive. We Do Not Forget. Expect Us,&amp;quot; along with a photo of President Park Geun-hye.\r\nSouth Korean officials appeared to regain control of the site quickly, and, though the Presidential site is still down, it no longer contains the hacked message and instead displays a maintenance notice.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThe account that appears to represent Anonymous in North Korea denied that it was responsible, but the looseness of the organization makes it difficult to know if others acting in the group's name were behind the attack.\r\n\uCCAD\uC640\uB300, \uAD6D\uBB34\uC870\uC815\uC2E4, \uAD6D\uBB34\uCD1D\uB9AC\uBE44\uC11C\uC2E4 - http://t.co/FQFpPBaHQ4 http://t.co/XAdm9oWcBe #DOWN #HACKED And We did'nt hack - #Anonymous\r\n\r\n\u2014 Anonymous (@Anonsj) June 25, 2013\r\nAttacks have continued on numerous other North Korean websites, notably\u00A0Uriminzokkiri.com,\u00A0the country main news/propaganda site, which saw its Twitter, Flickr and main website hacked in April. In addition, the\u00A0Korean Central News Agency,\u00A0newspaper Rodong Sinmun and Web portal Naenara\u00A0have all recovered from outages.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAnonymous is claiming victory with its campaign but it's hard to measure the impact that outages on a handful of websites from a country where Internet access is closed to the majority will actually have. It's not at all likely to unseat Kim, and the fact that the group was unable to deface any websites with its colorful images and messages or access social media sites will likely mean this 'operation' is likely to receive less media coverage than its previous efforts in April.\r\n\r\nHeadline image via\u00A0pricey\u00A0/ Flickr"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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