VANK(Voluntary Agency Network of Korea)was founded by Park Gi Tae in 1999.VANK says it’s a cyber diplomacy organization of 120,000 Koreans. The claim is it is an NGO (Non-Government Organization), but the Korean government makes national budget for VANK.
VANK has developed and implemented an education program for cyber diplomats. This program teaches Koreans how to interact with foreigners and act as citizen diplomats. These program have been adopted by over 500 student clubs in elementary, middle and high schools nationwide. Some universities grant academic credit for VANK activities.
The members of VANK have taken upon roles as cyber diplomats in order to isolate Japan from the global community, and to improve Korea’s national prestige. Their mission is to pervert the truth of the history for the benefit of Korea, to spread the false stories throughout the world, and to promote “Discount Japan” campaign!
VANK has produced various promotional materials which distort the facts of history, and tons of copies have been sent to more than 150 countries.
One case is the struggle of the possession of Takeshima. VANK says Dokdo (Takeshimam)is a territory of not Japan, but Korea. It’s unfavorable for Korea that Takeshima is located in the sea of Japan, so, VANK is in full activity to force many countries to change “ The sea of Japan” into“The East Sea” . Since, The sea of Japan is located in the east of only Korea!!
VANK says Takesnima had belonged to Korea before World War II, but you can see it’s a lie, when you read the following letter from Dean Rusk, Assistant Secretary of State to Dean Gooderham Acheson, American Secretary of State dated August 10th in1951;
“ As regards the island of Dokdo, otherwise known as Takeshima or Liancourt Rocks, this normally uninhabited rock formation was according to our information never treated as part of Korea and, since about 1905, has been under the jurisdiction of the Oki Islands Branch Office of Shimane Prefecture of Japan. The island does not appear ever before to have been claimed by Korea. ”
Also, they are Cyber terrorists!! VANK carried out a cyber-attack against Japanese bulletin board system site 2.ch around 1 o’clock in the afternoon on March 1st in 2010. The denial-of-service attack by VANK interrupted services of a host connected to the Internet, and made network resource unavailable to its users.
On March 2nd, the amount of the damage reached about 220 million yen. The members of VANK did not know that web server of 2.ch was put in California. VANK did damage to many web sites including a management company of 2.ch, and the American government office. So, San Francisco City Police, and FBI investigated, and it became clear that DoS attacker wasVANK!!

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