North Korea’s crypto heist money launderer
![A wanted poster released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) shows Sim Hyon-sop, a North Korean money launderer [FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION]](https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/data/photo/2025/12/26/69fd87b9-0bf7-4601-a132-86cd04b24e87.jpg)
A wanted poster released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) shows Sim Hyon-sop, a North Korean money launderer [FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION]
For years, U.S. investigators say he moved money for Pyongyang in the shadows, laundering stolen cryptocurrency across borders and buying everything from Marlboro tobacco to helicopters. Now the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has put a $7 million price on Sim Hyon-sop, an alleged financial fixer for North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s regime.
U.S. authorities believe Sim played a central role in laundering…
