World | North Korea N. Korea Has Army of 6K Hackers: S. Korea South Korean report says Pyongyang able to attack US mainland By Newser Editors and Wire Services Posted Jan 6, 2015 9:52 AM CST Copied In this Dec. 26, 2014, file photo, a North Korean mock Scud-B missile, center, stands among South Korean missiles displayed at the War Memorial of Korea in Seoul, South Korea. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File) South Korea says rival North Korea has a 6,000-member cyberarmy dedicated to disrupting the South's military and government. The figure is a dramatic increase from South Korea's earlier estimate that the North had a cyberwarfare staff of 3,000. Seoul's Defense Ministry also says in a report that North Korea may now have the ability to strike the US mainland because of its recent progress in missile technology and is advancing in efforts to miniaturize nuclear warheads to mount on such missiles. The United States stands pretty convinced that the North's cyberwarriors are behind the Sony hack. Read These Next A former NFL Pro Bowler has died at age 36. Major websites, apps affected by massive outage. Secret Service finds something strange pointed at Trump's plane. The massive AWS failure exposed a big problem with the internet. Report an error