North Korea skirted U.N. sanctions and earned $2 billion using cyber attacks, new U.N. report says

United Nations — A still-unpublished U.N. report claims that North Korea is skirting U.N. sanctions to the tune of billions of dollars. The news comes on the heels of North Korea defiantly test-firing more projectiles on Tuesday — the fourth test for the country in less than two weeks.

The U.N. report, written by an expert panel, says that the North’s “cyber actors… raise money for its WMD [weapons of mass destruction] programs with total proceeds to date estimated at up to $2 billion.”

Full article at: CBS News

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