Cyberattacks by North Korea have been found to cause Internet outages both the US and South Korea during the summer. The South Korea spy agency disclosed the IP addresses, leased from China and used by the North Korean Ministry of Post and Telecommunications.

The cyberattacks took place in July and consisted of denial of service, which imitates many computers attempting to access a single website or server simultaneously. This resulted in outages on major government-run websites in the US and South Korea., including the American White House and the South Korean’s presidential Blue House.

North Korea was the clear suspect from the beginning but no clear evidence was available until now. According to the South Korean media, the North has an Internet warfare division, employing up to 1000 experts for hacking into U.S. and South Korean military targets, designed for collecting sensitive data and interrupt service.

An air force commander from China has recently stated that a space arms race is all but inevitable. The commander Xu Qiliang proclaimed it was essential for China to produce operations that are both offensive and defensive when it comes to its space endeavours.

It is important to note that having superiority in space can would allow a given country a greater military strategic advantage and control over land and sea war zones anywhere on earth. The government of China has proclaimed for a long time that it intends to explore outer space for peaceful purposes and not to weaponize its space missions. It has even gone further when it called for the establishment of an international treaty for controlling the deployment of space weapons. It is important to mention that in early 2007, China had shot down one of its weather satellites, surprising many in the space and military fields and increasing worries of a space arms race.