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Everything. they stole millions of documents and destroy records. so these skills are all oven the world. >> and you say they are picking them in high school and putting them in a special school in pyongyang and how many are there and how surprised were you that was a defector, he said there is someone who is currently a cyber warrior in north korea that is leaking him information. >> that is extraordinary. in unit 121, the range goes from 1800 up to 5900. but this is only one of many cyber warr...

Goal again, john, try to break into a company, try to make north korea seem invincible on a global map. >> sort of a hacking society that turns into a hacking corporation. has this 121 done anything before successfully? >> yeah. south koreas government has been hot on the trail of 121 because last year, ground to a halt. the atms. every atm unable to withdraw cash. people werent able to get money out because of malware that affected the banking system here in south korea. some of the broadcastin...

Someone not where you got it. not how you got it all you have to say it look for this piece of malware. look at this i.p. address and you can better protect yourself and were slowly but surely getting to that. but its slow. >> you think there is a real chance that the u.s. knew that this was going to happen to sony? >> well, its tough to tell. because you have so many different parts of the u.s. government looking at the cyberspace, looking at cybersecurity. some are reeling from the snowden iss...

Interview. some are calling it an act of terrorism. law enforcement said is mimics a hack against banks last year in south korea. those attacks are believed to have been carried out by north korea secret network of hackers known as bureau 121. >> 121 is a highly sophisticated organization under the peoples branch of the republic of north korea. and what this group is designed to do, is to advance their cyber war wear capabilities. >> one response is tougher sanctions. north korea could be crippl...

Korean regime ordered the cyberattack on sony. a north korean defector told rueter about the cyber cell, bureau 121 which he says has 1,800 agents in countries through the world. today, john mccain said this. the cyber attack is the latest in a and troubling list of attempts from iranian to russian attacks to chinas orchestrated campaign to still military secrets from our defense contractors. the administrators failure to deter adversaries will continue to embolden those seeking to harm the unit...

Been consultations with the fbi and sony. the conversations were relayed to the national security team. for now, the white house says it is waiting on investigators from the fbi and national security team at the justice department to wrap up the investigation. that is happening soon. >> jim acosta for us. if it is true that north korea is the culprit behind the attack on sony, how can the worlds poorest countries that bars people contact with the internet pull off a cyber attack of sophisticatio...

>> what is bureau 121? >> they conduct the cyberattacks overseas and against enemy states, says this north korean defector, a former pyongyang military systems computer worker, now in south korea attempting to crumble an agency nearly impossible to chase, bureau 121, a shadow agency with an unknown number of the regimes hand-picked shadow agents placed in countries around the world. chung believes there are approximately 1800 of them. he says the agents themselves dont know how many exist. we ca...

North korea was able to increase its ability to launch cyberattacks. south korea learned the hard way -- banks across the country last year were paralyzed, atms frozen for days. media outlets went dark, servers jammed or wiped. north korea denied it was a source of a hack. but in the wake of the attack, south korea beefed up its own cyberforces, declaring the online war -- as dangerous as pyongyangs nuclear ambitions. north korea craves most of all to be visible to the global community and with ...

Talk to anybody from the fbi. were you able to talk specifically to somebody or get information on what is called the north korea bureau 121. that is their elite team of hackers. tell us what you know about them. >> reporter: this is a program north korea has had for years. it has gone under the radar. the worlds attention is the nuclear program and the launch of the nuclear missiles in the sea of japan. the estimated of 1,800 of the brightest minds from pyongyang university to use the technique...

Myth of the personality governor richardson talked about but giving the crazy idea they might try something like this. i think they took a special offense at this and for that reason, they went forward with this hack of sony. >> do you think the united states underestimated the capabilities here? >> you know, i mean, my understanding is that north korea has displayed some cyber capability in the past. largely, very rudimentary attacks against south korean media companies. a large cyber forest wi...