Kim Jong Un is looking to duck a new round of harsh economic sanctions with a two-pronged attack that involves employing the help of Russian smugglers and deploying its hacker army to secure cryptocurrency.
The implementation of North Korea’s new strategy casts further doubt on whether financial measures alone can force dictator Kim Jong Un to abandon his nuclear weapons program, U.S. officials say.
The spike in Russian exports is occurring as China — by far North Korea’s biggest trading partner — is beginning to dramatically ratchet up the economic pressure on its troublesome neighbour in the face of provocative behaviour such as last week’s test of a powerful nuclear bomb.
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