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North Korea steals $1.5bn as it pulls off world’s biggest ever heist (www.aol.com)
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The hackers stole more cryptocurrency in one attack than all the funds stolen by North Korean cyber criminals in 2024, when the rogue state’s cyber attackers made off with around $1.3bn in digital coins, according to cryptocurrency analysts Chainalysis.

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[–] rbesfe 10 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Are you implying that we should be openly trading with NK and funding their government? Seriously?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

No, I'm saying that not acknowledging that sanctions caused the economy to fail is intended to make readers think that it failed because of Communism rather than being blocked from trade with most of the world.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago

Fish that bites its own tail. North Korea is weird as it is because of the isolation imposed on it after the country was quite literally levelled by US bombings. That's the historical and materialist events that gave rise to "juche" ideology in the way North Korea understands it now. I think you'd be pretty scared of outsiders if your country had been as close to literally entirely destroyed as it gets by foreign bombing, and if when you tried to rebuild your economy you had been subjected to an almost complete economic blockade.