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Blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis has formalized a partnership with South Korea's national police to pursue crypto-enabled crime, a collaboration that spans the spectrum from state-level operations linked to North Korea to fraud schemes aimed at retail investors.
The tie-up signals how seriously Seoul is treating digital-asset crime as a law enforcement priority rather than a niche technical problem.
A Two-Front Problem South Korea's police have been contending with crypto crime on fundamentally different scales at the same time.
At one end sits the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, whose state-backed actors have made cryptocurrency theft and laundering a known revenue stream.
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