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| The United Nations warns against participating in the North Korea encryption conference |
According to Reuters, UN sanctions experts have warned people not to attend the cryptocurrency conference to be held in North Korea from February 22 to 29, referring to a confidential report to the United Nations Security Council. Month
Prior to this warning, an independent United Nations expert told the Security Council in August that North Korea used sophisticated and sophisticated cyber attacks from banks and cryptocurrency exchanges to generate nearly $ 2 billion in weapons of mass destruction programs.
North Korea has been under UN sanctions over its nuclear and missile programs since 2006, and the 15-nation Security Council has stepped up these measures over the years and asked Pyongyang to find other ways to make money.
North Korea hosted the first catalog and cryptocurrency conference in April. Organizers told Reuters that more than 80 organizations attended the conference and that US sanctions were accused of violating US digital currency expert Virgil, who attended the last conference. Griffith's actions
Reuters looked at an extract from an annual report issued by a future United Nations sanctions expert and warned that the conference speech included a clear discussion of cryptocurrencies that evade sanctions and money laundering.
He said UN sanctions would force countries to ban financial transactions, technical training, advice, services or assistance if they believed they were promoting North Korea's nuclear or missile program or if the sanctions were avoided.
The full report will be submitted to the UN Security Council's North Korean sanctions committee later this month.
A UK government spokesman said South Korea was using its electronic means to collect information, circumvent sanctions, generate revenue, and support the use of cryptocurrencies and technology, and Blockchain means violating Security Council resolutions because of its ability. The circumvention of sanctions promotes and generates its own weapons program.