North Korea, through the Directorate General of Reconnaissance, directed its cyber army to hack into global virtual currency exchange websites to obtain funds for nuclear weapons development.
According to the Yonhap News Agency, the UN Security Council’s Sanctions Committee on North Korea released the report after various investigations and assessments, as well as a collection of allegations against North Korea by member states. According to the report, North Korea successfully hacked $316.4 million from financial institutions and virtual currency exchange websites around the world through cyber armies and hacker groups from 2019 to November 2020, including the suspected successful hacking of $281 million in virtual currency in September last year and $23 million in October of the same year.
The government’s decision to use the money to finance the development of nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles has been taken by the government.
The company’s main business is the development of a new product, the “Frontier”. (Photo / Dazhi image)
In addition, North Korea has abandoned its past ship-to-ship transactions on the high seas and is blatantly transporting refined oil directly into Nampo port via tankers or barges, exceeding the 500,000 barrels of imports regulated by U.N. sanctions, with 121 imports of refined oil recorded from January to September last year alone.
The government’s report states that from January to September last year, North Korea exported 2.5 million metric tons of coal at least 400 times, mostly in the waters of Ningbo and Zhoushan Islands in China’s Zhejiang Province, and on June 17 last year, more than 40 North Korean ships were detected by satellite in the waters for coal export.
The new submarine-launched missile “Polaris 4ㅅ” was disclosed in the military parade of North Korea. (Photo / Dazhi image)
The new model of “Polaris 4ㅅ” was released at the military parade last year. In last year’s and this year’s military parades, North Korea has repeatedly disclosed various newly developed short- and medium-range ballistic missiles, submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBM) and intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) that can carry nuclear warheads. Experts judge that North Korea has a “very high” chance of having the technology to carry nuclear warheads on all ballistic missiles of short, medium and long ranges.
Since July last year, there has been continuous activity at the Sinpo Naval Shipyard in South Hamgyong Province, which has been judged to be related to the launch of a new submarine or the preparation of the SLBM test launch. A member state also alleges that the uranium enrichment plant at North Korea’s Yongbyon nuclear facility continues to operate, and that a light water reactor for experiments continues to be built.
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