North Korea funding 40% of its intercontinental ballistic missile program by stealing Ethereum from play-to-earn video games through Lazarus Group while Kim Jong Un builds an empty luxury ski resort in Masikryong is the most surreal cyberpunk arc in human history.
And then laundering it through Tornado Cash while Kim Jong Un rides a white stallion up Mount Paektu in a leather trench coat. William Gibson couldn't dream this up.
The Masikryong ski resort has imported Austrian Doppelmayr chairlifts that bypassed UN sanctions through 6 shell companies in Vladivostok. Dictators love luxury snow.
When sanctions don't work, crypto pays for the centrifuge parts.
The modern Axis of Evil runs on MetaMask and bridge exploits.
Imagine writing a decentralized Web3 DeFi bridge in Solidity and a 19-year-old North Korean hacker sitting in an unheated room in Shenyang drains $625M in 3 minutes to buy solid-fuel rocket boosters for the Hwasong-18.