For years, North Korea's state-trained hackers have been one of the world's most prolific robbers of banks - stealing huge sums of money from foreign financial instituions, draining cryptocurrency exchanges of billions, and funnelling the proceeds into the country's weapons programme. But now, in a remarkable twist, some of the same elite hackers appear to have decided to rob their own government instead. The ringleaders of the group are said to be discharged veterans from a cyber operations unit under North Korea's Reconnaissance and Intelligence General Bureau. In short, the hackers are accused of building a mini version of the same kind of money-laundering infrastructure North Korea deploys internationally, and turned it inwards. Lets not forget - this is all happening in the dictatorship of North Korea.