# How crypto hacking funds isolated North Korea’s nuclear programme

- Source: Guardian World
- Published: 2026-10-30T17:37:46+00:00
- Category: World
- Original: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/30/how-crypto-hacking-funds-isolated-north-korea-nuclear-programme
- Canonical: https://groundlevelnews.com/story/how-crypto-hacking-funds-isolated-north-korea-s-nuclear-programme-3a6638/

Cryptocurrency theft is estimated to generate half of the country’s foreign currency income North Korea plays by its own rules. The isolated, secretive and autocratic country is largely cut off from the world’s economic system – but when it comes to generating foreign earnings it relies on some of the world’s most sophisticated hacking. Experts, such as TRM Labs, quickly attributed the extraordina

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