North Korea Might Evade US Sanctions Using Cryptocurrencies

With the new US economic sanctions pushing a bunch of economies to bleed, North Korea reportedly inclines towards the use of cryptocurrencies to evade the subsequent break-down. A They further elaborated that North Korea would use a “mixer” also known as a “Laundry, Tumbler and a Washer”, which entails moving cryptocurrencies in order to hide their tracks; often sending the same type of cryptocurrency back to the original source.

“It is equivalent to requesting change for a $100 and receiving different denominations in return totaling a $100.”

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It is likely that North Korea will follow the lead of Iran to create their own cryptocurrency for the purpose of evading economic sanctions. The analyst duo further suggests:

“their own cryptocurrency would also facilitate their ability to open online accounts under the guise of a non-adversarial nation using anonymous communication to conceal the user’s locations and usage on the internet.”

DPRK could create After playing around with a number of anonymous accounts, the cryptocurrency will head towards European exchanges that have relationships with a U.S. based bank where they’ll be converted to USD.

“Voilà, the DPRK now has U.S. dollars with none of those pesky sanctions attached.”