DATE=2/15/2000
TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT
TITLE=CHINA-JAPAN HACKING (L-O)
NUMBER=2-259166
BYLINE=STEPHANIE HO
DATELINE=BEIJING
CONTENT=
VOICED AT:
INTRO: China says it did not instigate the recent attacks
on computer web sites maintained by the Japanese government.
V-O-A's Stephanie Ho reports many of the hackers left
messages decrying Japanese atrocities in China during World
War Two.
TEXT: Last month, when an ultra-conservative Japanese group
held a seminar in Osaka, denying that the Nanjing Massacre
ever happened, the Chinese government expressed outrage.
Shortly after the seminar, computer hackers attacked
Japanese government Internet sites. Messages in English and
Chinese inserted into the web sites, criticized Tokyo for
allowing the seminar to take place.
For the Chinese, World War Two is more commonly known as the
War of Resistance Against Japan. And the Nanjing Massacre,
so-named, because of the Japanese Imperial army's rampage of
murder and rape in the Chinese city of Nanjing, is one of
the war's most searing incidents.
In Japanese accounts of the massacre the death toll varies
from a few thousand to 200-thousand. Chinese historians put
the death toll much higher, at 300-thousand. Although
Beijing and Tokyo normalized ties in 1972, Chinese
resentment of Japanese wartime cruelty in China simmers just
below the surface.
The Osaka seminar caused the resentment to boil over. But in
Beijing Tuesday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhu
Bangzao, speaking through an interpreter, denied his
government's involvement in the computer hacking.
// ZHU INTERPRETER ACT //
With regard to the attacks of some Japanese web sites by
some hackers, the information still needs to be confirmed.
And we do not encourage any kind of such acts.
// END ACT //
Mr. Zhu says Beijing has paid attention to recent cases of
computer hacking of web sites in both Japan and the United
States. He adds that because the Internet in China is still
at an early stage of development, government agencies have
taken measures to try to protect the safety of China's
networks.
// ZHU INTERPRETER ACT //
It needs a good development environment. No misdeeds on the
Internet will be welcomed.
// END ACT //
The Chinese spokesman says Beijing believes the Internet is
an important factor that will drive economic growth.
The Japanese Kyodo News agency says Tokyo police examined
Internet protocol addresses left on the hacked web sites,
and have determined that most of the hackers used foreign
Internet providers -- most of which are based in the United
States. News reports blame the hacker attacks on Asian
students. (SIGNED)
NEB/HO/FC
15-Feb-2000 06:05 AM EDT (15-Feb-2000 1105 UTC)
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Source: Voice of America
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