Bobbie Johnson

But unlike his father, who was very kind of anti-technology and pretty old school, Kim Jong-un was actually educated in Switzerland under a pseudonym. He was kind of sent to school there and he had access to Western culture and Western technology. And when he took over in the 2010s as supreme leader, he really switched things around.

But unlike his father, who was very kind of anti-technology and pretty old school, Kim Jong-un was actually educated in Switzerland under a pseudonym. He was kind of sent to school there and he had access to Western culture and Western technology. And when he took over in the 2010s as supreme leader, he really switched things around.

So North Korea went from a country that basically had like one pipeline to connect to the internet for years and years and years,

So North Korea went from a country that basically had like one pipeline to connect to the internet for years and years and years,

So North Korea went from a country that basically had like one pipeline to connect to the internet for years and years and years,

to a country that saw that maybe its only options or some of its options involved getting really good at technology and so he has encouraged and put more money and effort into funding computer science programs and technology literacy in North Korean schools and that's bubbled up through various universities and colleges that

to a country that saw that maybe its only options or some of its options involved getting really good at technology and so he has encouraged and put more money and effort into funding computer science programs and technology literacy in North Korean schools and that's bubbled up through various universities and colleges that

to a country that saw that maybe its only options or some of its options involved getting really good at technology and so he has encouraged and put more money and effort into funding computer science programs and technology literacy in North Korean schools and that's bubbled up through various universities and colleges that

sort of develop people's skills and teach them things you know they don't just teach them coding or how to use computers they teach them how to hack and how to cover their tracks and all of this stuff and so you get these young men particularly coming out of college in north korea who have been trained for the last few years to really be operatives you know to be pop make it possible for them to do this stuff

sort of develop people's skills and teach them things you know they don't just teach them coding or how to use computers they teach them how to hack and how to cover their tracks and all of this stuff and so you get these young men particularly coming out of college in north korea who have been trained for the last few years to really be operatives you know to be pop make it possible for them to do this stuff

sort of develop people's skills and teach them things you know they don't just teach them coding or how to use computers they teach them how to hack and how to cover their tracks and all of this stuff and so you get these young men particularly coming out of college in north korea who have been trained for the last few years to really be operatives you know to be pop make it possible for them to do this stuff

and it's paying dividends for North Korea you know for such a small country and one that doesn't have like a big technology industry they are they punch way above their weight in terms of this stuff and so there's a lot of cryptocurrency theft going on earlier this year a couple of months ago a crypto exchange in Dubai got hacked and $1.5 billion got stolen, and that was by North Korean hackers.

and it's paying dividends for North Korea you know for such a small country and one that doesn't have like a big technology industry they are they punch way above their weight in terms of this stuff and so there's a lot of cryptocurrency theft going on earlier this year a couple of months ago a crypto exchange in Dubai got hacked and $1.5 billion got stolen, and that was by North Korean hackers.

and it's paying dividends for North Korea you know for such a small country and one that doesn't have like a big technology industry they are they punch way above their weight in terms of this stuff and so there's a lot of cryptocurrency theft going on earlier this year a couple of months ago a crypto exchange in Dubai got hacked and $1.5 billion got stolen, and that was by North Korean hackers.

So these guys have realized that this is a very lucrative way with very low cost to them. Really, it's just a computer and some training to get out there and cause havoc and fund the country that has no other way of making money.

So these guys have realized that this is a very lucrative way with very low cost to them. Really, it's just a computer and some training to get out there and cause havoc and fund the country that has no other way of making money.

So these guys have realized that this is a very lucrative way with very low cost to them. Really, it's just a computer and some training to get out there and cause havoc and fund the country that has no other way of making money.

you know, typically a team of pretenders might earn, you know, several million dollars a year through the different jobs that they're running. And I've seen lots of estimates wild all over the place, but the minimum is kind of around $3 million a year. Now this is like, that's a lot of money, but it's not, you know, that's not a huge amount, but yeah, obviously the way North Korea operates,

you know, typically a team of pretenders might earn, you know, several million dollars a year through the different jobs that they're running. And I've seen lots of estimates wild all over the place, but the minimum is kind of around $3 million a year. Now this is like, that's a lot of money, but it's not, you know, that's not a huge amount, but yeah, obviously the way North Korea operates,

you know, typically a team of pretenders might earn, you know, several million dollars a year through the different jobs that they're running. And I've seen lots of estimates wild all over the place, but the minimum is kind of around $3 million a year. Now this is like, that's a lot of money, but it's not, you know, that's not a huge amount, but yeah, obviously the way North Korea operates,