The Rise of North Korea’s Hacking Army

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3 pointsirtefa2 comments

Just started reading, but this part jumped out to me:

> Later, he discovered that one of the other gangsters had absconded with the money and the card.

So, the guy double-crossed the yakuza for...$50,000? That doesn't seem worth it at all?

5M yen is a pretty sizeable amount of cash. Go to an airport, fly out to a less Westernized country where your currency is worth a whole lot more, retire semi-comfortably to a crime-free life in a country without a Japanese extradition treaty.

That's the ideal ending. The other, more logical explanation: some people are kind of stupid.

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