U.S. Companies Funding North Korea's Ballistic Missile Program

BLING · Oct 22, 2023

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NK isn't some backwoods country that has no access to the internet. Just the right people have access and their cyberwarfare division has all the tools the NSA has. They use crypto better than anyone on the planet and that's how they are able to skirt around the sanctions. The sanctions are useless against NK. Yeah they are poor but not the Capital City. Think NK like Panam in the Hunger Games. There's all these poor districts with one rich city that is the center.

There are external state-sponsored actors that bring in money via crypto like ransomware, crypto hacking, etc. In fact, crypto pays for half of their nuclear program. They also use cyberwarfare for espionage, really about 70% of their activity overall is in cyber-espionage. Where do you think they figured out how to make a nuke? How do you figure they are working on their first 5th gen fighter plane? Stolen from governments like the US. And Russia has been assisting them too. So Kim sent Russia enough armaments to keep Russia in the game for all of 2024. When Russia sold all their old stuff and some of their new stuff to NK, they made them a supplier too because everything matches Russia's arsenal, including ammo. In exchange for this, Russia gives NK intangibles like cyber training. Now NK doesn't need Russia's help in cyberwarfare, they are writing their own book.
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I don’t see anything about the North producing their own “5th gen fighter”, I do see South Korea has been working on their the Kai-KF21. Are you sure that information is correct?

NK is a backwoods country, that doesn’t mean they aren’t a threat. It’s basically a criminal gangster state, although unlike the Russians their organized crime never got to resemble a free enterprise. It’s *all* in service to the state. I think that they have to resort to schemes like this at a nation-state level pretty well confirms their backwoods status.

That doesn’t make them not a threat. Any state actor that essentially commits itself to criminality and extortion as state policy is a possible threat to the free world. In addition, it’s well known they have massive amounts of artillery and can reach South Korean population centers with them.

chemgator · Oct 22, 2023

I have yet to figure out why South Korea keeps the capital of their nation within artillery striking distance of North Korea. I realize that it is not easy to relocate a capital, but it can be done. Germany did it. Indonesia is in the process of relocating the capital out of Jakarta, so a country doesn't have to be super-wealthy to get it done.

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