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How crypto hacking funds isolated North Korea’s nuclear programme

The Guardian

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Cryptocurrency theft is estimated to generate an estimated half of the country’s foreign currency incomeNorth Korea plays by its own rules. The isolated, secretive and autocratic country is largely cut off from the world’s economic system – but when it comes to generating foreign earnings it relies on some of the world’s most sophisticated hacking.Experts, such as TRM Group, quickly attributed the extraordinary $6.3b…

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