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"North Korea right now feels [it is] in the strongest position it's been for quite some time," Klingner said at a forum hosted by the Korea Economic Institute of America in Washington, pointing to Pyongyang's economic ties with Russia and China as well as revenue from cryptocurrency theft.
"It's getting about a billion dollars a year from cryptocurrency crime, so it doesn't need the U.S. and sanctions relief as it did several years ago," Klingner said."
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