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What Next TBD: North Korea's Hacking Army

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🗓️ 22 May 2022

⏱️ 23 minutes

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They’ve stolen billions of dollars. Is the U.S. ready to crack down? Guest: Jason Bartlett, research associate in the Energy, Economics, and Security Program at the Center for a New American Security Host: Lizzie O'Leary Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:40.8

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0:42.5

That's Jason Bartlett. He's an expert in international sanctions policy.

0:46.8

Among other things, he studies North Korea.

0:49.9

So he was the perfect person to help understand this statement from the Treasury Department from

0:54.4

Early May. It says they sanctioned virtual currency mixer blender.io blender,

1:01.4

which is used by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, aka North Korea,

1:06.1

to support its malicious cyber activities and money laundering of stolen virtual currency.

1:12.4

I wonder, as an expert on all of this, if you could put that into plain English for me,

1:17.4

what does that mean?

1:18.6

It was a very significant measure by Treasury because it was the first ever designation of

1:24.1

a cryptocurrency mixer. And why that matters is that for the past year and a half,

1:30.4

the Biden administration has really tried to wrap its head around cryptocurrency and how it

1:37.0

is potentially used to finance bad activity.

1:40.9

And if you use crypto to finance shady things like terrorism or nuclear weapons,

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