Cryptocurrency funds stolen by North Korean hackers have been a key source for financing Pyongyang's weapons programmes. Read more at straitstimes.com.
to support its weapons programmes, in comments released in a joint statement on Friday.
Cryptocurrency funds stolen by North Korean hackers have been a key source for financing the sanctions-stricken country’s weapons programmes, officials and experts in the US and its allies say. “We reiterate with concern that overseas DPRK IT workers continue using forged identities and nationalities” to evade UN sanctions and raise funds for missile programmes, according to the statement, using the initials of North Korea’s official name, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
“We are also deeply concerned about how the DPRK supports these programmes by stealing and laundering funds as well as gathering information through malicious cyber activities,” the statement said. South Korea’s nuclear envoy held talks with his US and Japanese counterparts in Seoul this week and condemned North Korea’s weapons tests. REUTERS
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