This article is the second in a series on information warfare. You can read the first part here.

North Korea certainly doesn’t like sanctions or the U.S.-ROK alliance, but outside information might be the Kim family’s Achilles’ heel. Some of the state’s most extreme punishments are for consuming foreign media, reflecting how fearful Kim Jong Un is of outside information undermining its grip on power.

South Korea has responded to North Korean military action — including nuclear tests, one of which may be around the corner — by turning on its enormous