VANK launched a campaign against the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2013.
A letter opposing Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games because “"Japan has no remorse for war crimes.” Was submitted by VANK to the International Olympic Committee (IOC), as well as to major foreign media such as CNN and the New York Times.
On the US government petition site, VANK signed a campaign saying, "Block Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games .". In response to the rumor “created” by VANK that “Japan is contaminated with the radiation of one thousand atomic bombs” the Korean government announced to ban importing marine products from the Pacific prefectures of Tohoku and Kanto on September 6, 2013 (Japan time). And on the next day, the Tokyo was selected as the host city of the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2020.
According to the public survey conducted by the Real Meter, professional organizations for public survey, shoed that 68.9% of Koreans think that “Korea should boycott the Games unless additional safety measures were taken” It means 7 of 10 Koreans support the boycott.
VANK's opposition to the Games has become more aberrant this year. On January 6, a poster was put on a temporary fence on the new site of the Japanese embassy in Jong Chiyo Road, Nono District, where the image of Games are contaminated by radioactivity (see photo). See). The poster, in which the Olympic Torch Relay was replaced with a radioactive material transport scene, gives a strong impression.
VANK will soon send this poster to the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games Organizing Committee (TOCOG) and officially distribute it online. Until the opening of July, VANK plan to increase the number of posters both online and offline. Park Ki-chan the president of VANK says, “The purpose of making these posters is to give hope both the athletes and spectators of the Tokyo Olympics will be safe.
FBI launches investigation
March 1, 2013, Sanfu, USA
The data center, Pacific Internet Ex Change (PIE) server got huge traffic from bots mainly from Korea, and downed.
A bot is a virus, it automatically make repeatedly access to targets servers. Even though a single attack from a bot is small, it becomes huge if it was made from hundreds and even hundreds thousands PCs, and down servers.
PIE filed a damage report of more than 2.5 million USD (270 million JPY), to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and made it public. Then the attack became quiet.
This attack is caused by doubt for scoring to the Korean figure skater Kim Jonah at Vancouver Winter Olympic Games. The doubt was written in "2 Channel" (now Written in the current 5 Channel. And the attackers made attack to "2 Channel" which have servers in the U.S. , and the attack resulted in the cyber-attack to the U.S. company.
And the reason why the attack became quiet is said to be that FBI which have high skill/knowledge for cyber-attack investigation started the work.
Although is it not comfortable that the investigation capabilities of Japanese investigative agencies at the time seems low, it is one of the benefits of having a server in the US.
The Chosun Ilbo reports that this attack was led by VANK, though the FBI ’s investigation results is not publicized.
It has been 20 years since VANK was established. At that time, junior and senior high school students who received anti-Japanese education through VANK are now good adults. And VANK including Cyber Dokdo Academy
It seems that the members' skills in cyber-attacks have improved significantly. And the fact that the network is spread around the world is undoubtedly a threat to us Japanese.
