According to Chosun, that's the second such cyber intrusion this year.
The Chosun Ilbo's English versions of the quotes cited in this story were confirmed by the Guardian with the book's publisher.
"It's manufactured with thorough planning," said Lee Hark-joon, a director of the South Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo's multimedia team, which followed the girl band Nine Muses for a year to film a documentary on the making of a K-pop group.
Spy satellites detected what looked to be a Taepodong-2 missile in place Tuesday at the Musudan-ri launch site near North Korea's northeastern coast, said Chosun Ilbo, South Korea's leading daily, quoting an unidentified diplomatic source.
North Korea bristles at this.South Korea's Chosun newspaper has reported that North Korea's MiG fighters have on at least ten occasions since February crossed South Korea's "tactical action line", some 20km (12 miles) north of the border, after which they can be over Seoul in minutes.
South Korea's conservative Chosun Ilbo, the country's largest newspaper, ran a front-page story on emergency shelter awareness on Monday morning.
In 2013, thinly sourced reports going back to Japan's Asahi Shimbun and South Korea's Chosun Ilbo newspapers also claimed that Kim had ordered the mass execution of a dozen of the orchestra's members and another art troupe after they allegedly made a sex tape.
South Korea's Chosun Ilbo, a national daily newspaper, has suggested that North Korea's sudden interest in outreach could be a reaction to the ongoing drought.
North Korean officials detained a photographer working for Chosun Ilbo, South Korea's leading daily newspaper.
The northerners demanded an apology for what they said was an "unpleasant" story in that day's Chosun Ilbo.
