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From Super Dollars to Super Hackers: The Secret History of North Korea's Criminal Empire

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The video transcript explores the phenomenon of highly effective North Korean state-sponsored hacking, contrasting this technological prowess with the nation's overall economic poverty and technological isolation enforced by its Juche ideology. It details how the government identifies and trains gifted math and science students to become hackers, often operating abroad under false pretenses, to generate revenue for the regime through massive cyber heists, with the Axi Infinity crypto theft cited as a major example. This system of criminal enterprises is used to sustain the Songbun social hierarchy by providing the elite class with luxuries and funding strategic programs like missile development, effectively circumventing international sanctions and internal restrictions. The overall strategy may be to project an image of technical incompetence while running sophisticated, well-organized, and highly impactful global hacking operations.


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