we've known that north korea has maintained a hacking operation, a state-supported hacking operation for a long time now. just ask sony pictures. but as a military operation north korea is now considered to be a top-tier cyber operator. quote, "north korea's army of more than 6,000 hackers is undeniably persistent and undeniably improving. amid all the attention on pyongyang's progress on developing a nuclear weapon capable of striking the continental united states the north koreans have also quietly developed a cyber program that is stealing hundreds of millions of dollars and is proving capable of unleashing global havoc. one former british chief says the take from its cyber heists may bring the north as much as $1 billion a year, which is a third of the value of the nation's exports." so all the things that north korea's able to export to the world, they're able to get a third of the value of that entire economic behavior through stealing stuff online.