In a new report, UN experts claim that North Korean hackers stole more than £37 million in bitcoin to fund and develop the country’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs. Pyongyang’s testing and presentation of new short-range and possibly medium-range missiles, ‘incorporating both ballistic and guiding technologies and employing both solid and liquid propellants,’ accelerated in January, according to the annual report by independent sanctions monitors. Between 2020 and mid-2021, cyberattacks stole more than £37 million in digital assets from at least three cryptocurrency exchanges in North …

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