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World Service,07 Aug 2019,53 mins
North Korea accused of hacking banks and crypto-currency transactions
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A confidential UN report accuses North Korea of using sophisticated cyber-attacks to steal two billion dollars to fund its weapons programmes. We reflect on the legacy of the late US novelist Toni Morrison, the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. The United Nations has stepped up its emergency appeal for Zimbabwe, warning that about five million people -- or a third of the population -- are in need of food aid.
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