국가정보 유출혐의로 미국 정부의 의해 기소된 미국의 군사안보전문가 스티븐 김(김진우) 박사가 유죄를 인정했다. 김 박사는 미국 최대의 국립 핵연구기관 리버모어 연구소 소속이던 2009년 5월 국무부 공보담당자로부터 폭스 뉴스 기자에게 북한핵 문제를 설명해 주라는 요청에 응했으나 보도후 기밀을 누설했다는 혐의로 수사를 받게 됐다. 김 박사는 워싱턴DC 소재의 연방지방법원에서 열린 심리에서 자신이 간첩법을 위반했다고 시인했다. 해당 정보는 북한의 군사적 능력과 대비태세와 관련된 내용이며 TS/SCI급으로 분류된 정보였으며 김 박사는 직책상 이런 정보에 접근이 가능했다고 검찰 측은 강조했다. 매킨 검사는 "스티븐 김은 자신이 내부고발자(whistleblower)가 아니며, 자신이 행위가 미국을 위험에 처할...

A former regulator says a 2013 shooting which nearly knocked out Silicon Valley's power supply was a terror attack, possibly testing for a bigger strike, but others cast doubt on the claim. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said Friday it could not rule anything out, but that the attack on an electricity substation near San Jose was more likely a criminal matter, rather than terrorism-re...

A former U.S. State Department arms expert, Stephen Kim, on Friday pleaded guilty to leaking secret information on North Korea to the media. Kim, a Korean-American, is charged with revealing classified information about the possibility of a North Korean nuclear test to a Fox News reporter in 2009. At a U.S. federal court hearing here, Kim pleaded to "one count of making an unauthorized disclosu...

Samsung Electronics’ smartphone market share in China fell in the fourth quarter of 2013 as its rival Apple saw a marked increase. Analysts said Apple would continue to see a rise in the first quarter of this year as it recently signed a new deal with China’s largest telecom carrier China Mobile Communications Corporation. According to research firm Strategy Analytics, Samsung’s smartphone marke...

자동차 정비 어플 다음 카닥이 올해 전국 매장으로 확대한다. 이준노 대표는 현재까지 수도권, 대전, 대구, 부산까지 확장했으며 “올해 1분기 안에 전남권, 강원도와 제주도를 포함하여 전국으로 확장할 계획”이라고 코리아헤럴드와의 인터뷰에서 말했다. 올해 1월에 분사한 카닥은 바로 이어 다음에서 투자를 받게 된다. 현재 지분을 보유한 4명의 창립 멤버가 경영권을 갖고 있으며, 다음은 관계사 형태가 된다. 투자 문의도 잇따라고 있다. “카닥의 주요 고객층이 30~40대 수입 차 오너들이다 보니 금융권에서도 투자에 관심을 보인다”는 것이 이대표의 말. 그는 현재 “카닥의 라이벌은 없다”며 자신감을 드러내며 4~5개월 전 네이버나 SK Planet과 같은 동종업체가 수백 억 원을 투자해서 같은 사업에 ...

South Korea’s tech giant LG Electronics Inc. said Monday its net loss narrowed in the fourth quarter of 2013 from a year earlier on improved smartphone sales. Its net loss came to 63.4 billion won ($58.76 million) in the October-December period, improving from the 478.1 billion won posted a year earlier, LG Electronics reported in a regulatory filing. Revenue, or sales, edged up 0.8 percent on-...

South Korean athletes on Thursday reaffirmed their drive to put in a strong showing at the upcoming Winter Olympics in Russia. Dozens of athletes and officials assembled at the National Training Center in Seoul for their team inauguration ceremony ahead of the Feb. 7-23 Sochi Winter Olympics. Earlier in the day, the Korean Olympic Committee (KOC) announced the final list of 64 athletes and 49 o...

South Korea blasted Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Thursday for defending his much-denounced visit to a controversial war shrine last month. Indicating that he may continue visiting the Yaskuni Shrine, Abe said during the World Economic Forum in Davos Wednesday that Japan is determined not to wage another war and that the war shrine is designed to honor regular Japanese war dead, not Class-A...

Two Chinese activists who agitated for officials to disclose assets argued their innocence on Thursday, the second day in a series of prosecutions of anti-corruption campaigners highlighting the government's resolve to crush any challenges. The trial of Zhao Changqing, a veteran Chinese dissident, was adjourned after he dismissed his two lawyers in a move that would help delay his case, one of h...

U.S. Deputy Secretary of State William Burns has called for China to boost bilateral cooperation so North Korea can take "meaningful and early steps" to give up its nuclear ambitions, according to a U.S. statement released on Thursday. Burns was in Beijing as part of his three-nation Asia trip that already took him to Seoul. He is set to leave for Tokyo later Thursday. In Beijing, Burns held tal...

Chinese computer giant Lenovo will buy IBM's low-end server business for $2.3 billion, it Thursday, giving it a platform to compete in that sector with US giants Dell and Hewlett-Packard. IBM will receive $2.07 billion in cash and the rest in shares for the x86 business, Lenovo said, in a deal seen as helping the Chinese firm diversify away from the slumping PC-sales sector. IBM will still prov...