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Be shut down? >> not entirely. the problem with this is that we know from north korean defectors that have leaked information that a lot of these offices of office 39 are in china, other parts of the globe. they are hard to shut down. what ends up being is essentially a giant game of whack-a-mole. especially if you're using cyber agents to attack banks and bitcoin exchanges and other things. it is very hard to do. they are very good at masking the footprint. i think we put a dent in it. >> according to un security resolutions, china is supposed to shut down these companies. >> the problem is, ...

And 2020 circumstance for the vision? >> without giving too much detail, we have an enormous part of the fbi in the counterintelligence division that focuses on just that threat in making sure that we do everything we can to understand how the bad guys might come at us and as i talked about earlier to equip the civilian agencies for hardening the infrastructure with all of the information we have about how they're going to come at us. >> and if you had international security domain increased resources, how would you spend another marginal dollar beyond what you would expect to receive now? >> ...

Envision? >> without giving too much detail, we have an enormous part of the fbi in our counterintelligence division and the cyber division that focuses on just that threat, in making sure that we do everything we can to understand how the bad guys might come at us. as i talked about earlier, to equip the civilian agencies responsible for hardening our infrastructure, with all the information we have about how they'll come at us. >> if you had in your national security domain increased resources, how would you spend another marginal dollar beyond what you expect to receive now? >> i'd probably...

Themselves don't know how many exist. we can't verify jang's claims about the shadow group but he says he's obtained from a current operative hundreds of financial files hacked from south korean banks complete with names and other bank account details. >> is the cyber war the real war for north korea? raising cyber agents is cheap, he says the. the world has the wrong view of the north korean state. that incorrect world view, north korea was able to increase its ability to launch cyber attacks. south korea learned the hard way. banks across the country were paralyzed, atms frozen for days, med...

America. with the lone wolves, it's difficult to detect them. they are not part of the group or the network and not necessarily communicating with rad kas. it's difficult to stop them launching attacks >> the conspiracy bleeds information and you pick it up. a lone wolf by definition if he or she is acting individually, how do you find out what they are up to? >> the fbi looks for high risk individuals and on occasion launched sting operations. here in the united states, they have under covered cyber agents who are communicating with the extremists and trying to assess whether they pose a thre...