The Sun reports:
KIM Jong-un is recruiting primary school children and grooming them to become the world’s best hackers, an intelligence analyst has warned.
The child prodigies are recruited from the age of five and channelled into specialist schools where they learn how to target the West with devastating hacks.
North Korea analyst at Google Threat Intelligence Group, Michael Barnhart, told the Sun that North Korea has a “systematic approach to developing its cyber capabilities”.
He said there is significant evidence that prospective hackers are selected from as young as primary school age.
Barnhart said: “The process starts with identifying bright students in primary school who demonstrate aptitude in subjects like science and mathematics.”
The talented children are chosen in what Barnhart described as a “pyramid-like prodigy recruiting system”.
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