The North Korean intelligence structures still seem to be an enigma to Western intelligence analysts. Only a few incidents are reported in the media; these are mostly connected to criminal activity and are sometimes based on dubious assumptions. A rather disregarded field of North Korean intelligence is what I call "sub-intelligence." This parameter includes information brokerage, business intelligence, "front" companies, hackers, organized crime, ethnic communities, and so on. It is a global network of intelligence-related subjects that are used by the North Korean government and its huge intelligence bureaucracy. They often occupy simultaneous multiple positions in the security and civilian sectors, which complicates their tracing by Western intelligence.
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