Korea-Japan Netizen “Cyber Dok-do War”

Conflict between Korea and Japan around the Dok-do issue is becoming a “Cyber Slander War.”

According to Internet industries, including Dokebi News (www. Dkbnews.com), which provides unusual news, Korean and Japanese netizens are establishing slander websites for these cyber-wars, causing knock-down of each other’s website by intentional excessive accesses.

The main battlefields of netizens are Internet manias’ assembling sites such as “2CH” (www.2ch.net) and “The Way of Country K” (kanokuni.hp.infoseek.co.jp) of Japan, “DC Inside” (www.dcinside.com) and “Humorous University” (www.humoruniv.com) of Korea.

While Japanese netizens are putting the article “Takeshima is Japanese territory” with the picture of selling dog meat, Korean netizens are putting up the picture “54 Years Celebration Stamp for the Atomizing of Japan,” which is synthesized like a stamp.

It is revealed that they are developing and operating offensive programs, causing concentrated traffic to paralyze each other’s website. In this day, “2CH” and “The Way of Country K” were completely knocked down, and “DC Inside” was also jammed.

In addition to netizens creating slanderous websites over conflicts between Korea and Japan, this is the first time that they paralyzed each other’s websites systematically using programs.

On the other hand, the ministry of information and communication announced, “What we sense was not huge traffic change impacting the entire network, but just one.”