►  Most extensive sanctions against North Korea are imposed due to nuclear development efforts. The ultimate purpose of these sanctions is to coerce North Korea into following the international order such as Non-proliferation Treaty. And there would be several goals of the sanctions, including punishing North Korea for attempting to acquire nuclear weapons, changing such behaviors, or at least bringing it back...

► North Korea has limited capacity to deal with the challenges that it currently faces. ► North Korea will try to soothe public discontent by implementing drastic measures that may appear to lift the pandemic restrictions. This will be an effort to pacify public discontent over government restrictions on economic activities, improve the supply and demand of food, and utilize it as governmen...

► In this environment of rapid innovation within the cryptocurrency and blockchain technology industry coupled with unyielding sanctions against Pyongyang, North Korean hackers have become the greatest state state-sponsored threat to the financial services sector. ► As long as Pyongyang views the potential gains of cyber operations against financial institutions and technologies greater than the pote...