Seon-wook Kim is an NK News contributor based in South Korea. He previously interned at the U.S. embassy in Seoul.
The former DPRK diplomat tells NK News that no information of value was on the hacked cellphone, however
Hackers target victims with malicious social networking app pretending to serve North Korean defectors
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