Things have been politically heating up between the US and North Korea in the last few weeks. Now it seems that the famed hacktivist group Anonymous has stepped into the fray. In a just released Pastebin post, the group announced some demands, including the resignation of Kim Jong-un, North Korea’s leader as well as demands to stop the nuclear threats we have seen in the headlines in the last few days.

We demand:
– N.K. government to stop making nukes and nuke-threats
– Kim Jong-un to resign
– it’s time to install a free direct democracy in North Korea
– uncensored internet access for all the citizens! To Kim Jong-un:
So you feel the need to create large nukes and threaten half the world with them?
So you’re into demonstrations of power?, here is ours:
– We are inside your local intranets (Kwangmyong and others)
– We are inside your mailservers
– We are inside your webservers Enjoy these few records as a proof of our access to your systems (random innocent citizens, collateral damage, because they were stupid enough to choose idiot passwords), we got all over 15k membership records of www.uriminzokkiri.com and many more. First we gonna wipe your data, then we gonna wipe your badass dictatorship “government”. To the citizens of North Korea we suggest to rise up and bring these motherfuckers of a oppressive government down!

The Pastebin post, titled “Anonymous hits N. Korea” not only claims to have gotten 15,000 membership records from the uriminzokkiri.com website, it offers some proof. Six of the records they report to have acquired are part of the post, and they include names, email addresses, and the hashed-out passwords.

Enjoy these few records as a proof of our access to your systems (random innocent citizens, collateral damage, because they were stupid enough to choose idiot passwords), ………Expect us! Partial leak (example records) of www.uriminzokkiri.com

The data leak follows an operation that launched a coordinated DDoS attack on North Korea’s official government website this past Saturday. It is not known how sensitive these membership email records are, but coming from a country that is not very open when it comes to digital freedom, this can be regarded as something that has certainly caught their attention. The Anonymous post also indicates that this is likely just the beginning of troubles for North Korea, reporting to be within their networks, mailservers, and webservers. It is also notable that Anonymous makes it very clear they are not necessarily in alignment with the US in this effort:

Don’t misunderstand us: As well we disagree with the USA government too – these guys are crooks, USA is a threat to world peace too, and direct democracy (or any kind of democracy) doesn’t exist there. The American government is a target and enemy of Anonymous as well! This is not about country vs country – This is about we, the people, the 99% (of USA and of North Korea) vs oppressing and violent regimes (like USA gov. and N.K. gov)!