South Korea released its new National Cybersecurity Strategy on Thursday with a focus on strengthening “preemptive” and “offensive” capabilities to counter North Korea’s increasing cyber threats. 

The strategy released by the National Security Office seeks to address the DPRK’s illicit cyber operations, including threats to infrastructure, virtual currency theft to fund nuclear and missile development and disinformation campaigns, the presidential office said in a press release.

Based on the National Security Strategy published last June, the new framework is the Yoon Suk-yeol government’s first cybersecurity strategy brief and emphasizes the protection of “liberal democratic values” in cyberspace.

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