North Korean economic policy evolves to include hacking banks for cash

[Virginiá]

North Korea Suspected Of $81 Million Bank Cyberheist

http://miami.cbslocal.com/2017/03/24/north-korea-suspected-of-81-million-bank-cyberheist/

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North Korea’s Rising Ambition Seen in Bid to Breach Global Banks

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/25/technology/north-korea-hackers-global-banks.html

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And so North Korea continues to act like a large criminal organization rather than an actual country.

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Interesting. The hacking is new, but the DPRK has a long, long history of petty crime in order to get foreign currency (being in the sector of the army in charge of this = very tip of the elite). For a while, their embassies were like the #1 spot for drug trafficking.