North Korea has seized US $ 20 million from cyber-attacks to pour money into its own weapons program. The UN report leaked the information. The secret report says Pyongyang attacks various banks and cryptocurrency exchanges to raise money.
Some sources have told the BBC that the UN is investigating five cyber attacks.
North Korea launched two missile tests yesterday. In less than two weeks, the country witnessed a fourth missile test.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said on Wednesday that they were testing missiles to warn against US and South Korean joint military drills. Pyongyang described the joint trial as a breach of the peace agreement.
According to a UN report, the North Korean sanctions committee has been sent to the UN Security Council. It said Pyongyang had intensified attacks to steal funds from financial institutions.
Experts are also investigating cyber-mining activities on foreign exchange.
According to the report, the income they receive as a result of the invasion of North Korea through cryptocurrency exchanges is difficult to capture. There is no policy here as in the conventional banking sector and remains outside the watchdog of the government.
According to the report, North Korea has broken UN sanctions rules by placing heavily destructive weapons capable of transporting ships from ship to ship.
For 25 years, the UN Security Council has banned North Korea from supplying coal, iron, clothing and seafood there. There is also a ban on the import of crude oil and petroleum products.
Kim Jong-un has said he would quit the nuclear program after a meeting with US President Donald Trump in Singapore last year. He also agreed not to test the intercontinental ballistic missile. Trump and Kim's meeting at another conference in Hanoi was completed without agreement.
Talks to control the nuclear program have been stuck since then. However, both sides are diplomatically in favor of solving the problem.
A spokesman for the US Interior Ministry told Reuters that the victims had been asked to take action against North Korea's cyber activities.
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