As international sanctions have cut into North Korea's ability to import and export things, they've become desperate for cash.
They've been running crazy schemes to get it — smuggling, stealing, lying, cheating, swashbuckling — but that's nothing compared to what they make from stealing cryptocurrency.
In fact, most of their foreign currency now comes from stolen crypto.
So, can anything be done to stop the world's first nuclear-armed crypto bro, Kim Jong-un?
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