You'll note that, in the first paragraph of the US Treasury announcement that this thread is about, it says: >This includes over $455 million stolen by the Laz

You'll note that, in the first paragraph of the US Treasury announcement that this thread is about, it says: >This includes over $455 million stolen by the Lazarus Group, a Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) state-sponsored hacking group that was sanctioned by the U.S. in 2019, in the largest known virtual currency heist to date. There's nothing preventing one country from supporting or using a hacker group in another country.