South Korea has obtained intelligence that North Korea last month ordered a military institute of computer hackers - known as Lab 110 - to "destroy" South Korean communications networks, news reports said Saturday.

The National Intelligence Service informed lawmakers of its finding on Friday, pointing to it as evidence the North was behind massive cyberattacks that paralyzed major South Korean and U.S. Web sites in recent days, the mass-circulation JoongAng Ilbo newspaper reported.

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