If there is a nation in the world that has been accused on multiple occasions of being immersed in the operations of cybercrime, that is North Korea. And is that not much time has passed since a report of the Sanctions Committee of the Security Council of the United Nations Organization, write a report that had access to the world’s press, accusing North Korea of having obtained more than $ 2 billion through these illegal practices. Among the most common crimes that you will endilgarían to the asian country are attacks against exchanges of cryptocurrencies, as the south Korean UpBit, but pointing also to individual victims, giving priority to the cryptocurrencies due to the additional difficulty that the same would have to try to be traced by the authorities. According to the UN report, cited by Reuters: “cyber actors of the Democratic people’s Republic of Korea, many operating under the direction of the General Office of Recognition, to earn money for his program of WMD (Weapons of mass destruction), for a total amounting to date to $ 2 trillion”. Now, however, the official news agency of North Korea, the Korea Central News Agency (NCWA), has denied this information, accusing the united States of being behind an international campaign of media manipulation to make you look bad to the north Korean government. “A production like this, created by hostile forces, is nothing but a play dirty aimed at damaging the image of our Republic, and find a justification for a campaign of sanctions and pressure against the Democratic people’s Republic of Korea”, stated in a statement by the National Coordination Committee Against Money Laundering and the Financing of Terrorism, cited by the NCWA. Adding further that the UN would be “recreating the same old trick that the fascist propagandists of Hitler tended to cling to,” referring specifically to the report cited by Reuters, and that to the north Korean government would not be anything other than a piece in the game of lies created from Washington to enlodar the name of the institutions of the north. Despite these statements, the truth is that there are currently 35 open investigations in 17 different countries, for alleged criminal activities of the government of North Korea conducted in cyberspace, of which 10 have been implemented against South Korea, and that would strengthen the thesis handled at the international level of the north Korean government using this means to finance their activities. The following two tabs change content below. Student of International Studies, interested in issues of economy and international politics. Passionate about the progress of the Fourth Industrial Revolution in general and the cryptocurrencies in particular.
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