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The Lazarus Heist S1: 6. Cyber slaves

Cyber Hack

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Jang's Execution Sparked a Massive Purge in North Korea

Two years later, there are shocking images showing a defeated chang song tech being dragged away in handcuffs during a party meeting. He's put on trial for a string of alleged crimes ranging from corruption to womanizing and what the state medio call capitalist living. A few days later, soldiers execute him with machine guns. We still don't know exactly why kim jung un decided to have his uncle and men or executed. Maybe jang was getting too powerful, maybe he was corrupt. But suddenly everyone connected to him was at risk. No one was safe, not even those based abroad.

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