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N. Korea Sends Another Encrypted Numbers Broadcast

SEOUL, March 19 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea’s state radio station resumed broadcasting mysterious numbers Sunday after a nine-day hiatus that could be some kind of coded message to its agents operating in South Korea. The message began just after midnight (Seoul time), at 12:15 a.m., by the North’s propaganda station Radio Pyongyang. It lasted [...]

Smartphone App Instantly Verifies Document Authenticity

SEOUL, Apr. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – A new method to instantly identify the authenticity of hard-copy documents has been developed by Korean researchers. The National Forensic Service (NFS) said on April 9 that it has filed a patent for a technique of printing a 128 bit QR code encrypted with information on a hard-copy document, [...]