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UN report calls for sanctioning North Korean spy chief to counter cybercrime
Panel of Experts highlights growing DPRK cyber threat, but researcher says findings largely retread old ground
The U.N. Security Council should sanction the head of North Korea’s intelligence agency to counter cyberattacks and cut off a key source of funding for its nuclear and weapons programs, a forthcoming U.N. report recommends.
But one expert says the latest Panel of Experts report is mostly scant on specifics and repeats known information and existing countermeasures, leaving a gap that countries like the U.S. must fill to ensure global cooperation against this threat.
The Panel does not “add anything to the existing narrative,” Jenny Jun, a nonresident fellow at the
