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Thu, 12/04/2008 - 18:03
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Seoul, Tokyo to set up police hotline
SEOUL, Dec. 4 (Yonhap) -- Police chiefs of Seoul and Tokyo agreed on Thursday to
set up a hotline and strengthen cooperation to combat cyber crime, South Korea's
police agency said.
Kim Seok-ki, commissioner of Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency, reached the
agreement with Toshiro Yonemura, superintendent general of Tokyo's Metropolitan
Police Department, during the latter's visit to Seoul, it said.
"The talks were held in response to the growing need for police cooperation
between the two countries to cope with the surge in cyber crime, voice phishing,
gang violence and other international crimes," the agency said in a statement.
A police hotline will be opened between the cyber investigation units to enable
officers to exchange emails and phone calls to share crime information and
investigation progress, they said.
The Internet and telephone serve as the latest tools to steal confidential data
from government computer systems and garner illegal profits from abroad. Such
cross-border crimes include telephone fraud, also called voice phishing, a scam
directing individuals to make calls and provide credit card or bank account
numbers for financial rewards.
Kim also proposed to cooperate in preventing indiscriminate attacks and mass
killing that have been recently growing in both countries amid an economic slump
and increased wealth polarization, police said.
Yonemura sought Seoul's efforts to secure the safety for 37,000 Japanese
residents in Korea and more than 2 million others traveling in the country, the
officers said.
Seoul and Tokyo also plan to set up a trilateral hotline with Beijing, they said.
China was the major country of origin for cyberattacks in Korea, accounting for
54 percent of such crime, according to a study in May by the non-governmental
Korea Institute of Information Society & Cryptology.
The United States accounted for 14 percent of hacking crimes here, while Japan
and Brazil followed with 5 percent each.
Yonemura will later pay a courtesy call on Eo Cheong-soo, commissioner general of
the National Police Agency, before returning to Tokyo on Friday, officers said.
hkim@yna.co.kr
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set up a hotline and strengthen cooperation to combat cyber crime, South Korea's
police agency said.
Kim Seok-ki, commissioner of Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency, reached the
agreement with Toshiro Yonemura, superintendent general of Tokyo's Metropolitan
Police Department, during the latter's visit to Seoul, it said.
"The talks were held in response to the growing need for police cooperation
between the two countries to cope with the surge in cyber crime, voice phishing,
gang violence and other international crimes," the agency said in a statement.
A police hotline will be opened between the cyber investigation units to enable
officers to exchange emails and phone calls to share crime information and
investigation progress, they said.
The Internet and telephone serve as the latest tools to steal confidential data
from government computer systems and garner illegal profits from abroad. Such
cross-border crimes include telephone fraud, also called voice phishing, a scam
directing individuals to make calls and provide credit card or bank account
numbers for financial rewards.
Kim also proposed to cooperate in preventing indiscriminate attacks and mass
killing that have been recently growing in both countries amid an economic slump
and increased wealth polarization, police said.
Yonemura sought Seoul's efforts to secure the safety for 37,000 Japanese
residents in Korea and more than 2 million others traveling in the country, the
officers said.
Seoul and Tokyo also plan to set up a trilateral hotline with Beijing, they said.
China was the major country of origin for cyberattacks in Korea, accounting for
54 percent of such crime, according to a study in May by the non-governmental
Korea Institute of Information Society & Cryptology.
The United States accounted for 14 percent of hacking crimes here, while Japan
and Brazil followed with 5 percent each.
Yonemura will later pay a courtesy call on Eo Cheong-soo, commissioner general of
the National Police Agency, before returning to Tokyo on Friday, officers said.
hkim@yna.co.kr
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