Follow The Money: Since 2017 @APPGNK2024 has been warning that North Korea was stealing crypto currency- using it to evade sanctions and to fund its nuclear and ballistic missiles programmes. I cochair the APPG with @MPIainDS and we have regularly voiced serious concern at the failure to recognise the dangers posed by the dictatorships who represent a deadly quartet to our democracies. Yesterday in @UKHouseofLords - with the welcome support of former @FCDOGovUK Minister Lord Bellingham and Crossbench Convenor, the Earl of Kinoull- we pressed the Minister Lord Pitt Watson to recognise the grave threat to national security posed by North Korea - through crypto currency theft, through thousands of it’s soldiers fighting Putin’s war in Ukraine, through the supply of armaments and weapons. In combatting Putin’s Russia, Xi’s CCP, Iran & North Korea, we must urgently rebuild, strengthen, and reenergise the formidable alliances of like-minded nations. Cyber attacks and cryptocurrency heists are the opening rounds designed to undermine our resilience and to soften up our liberal democracies. Follow the money and be in no doubt about the dangers to which it leads. @andyburnham @KemiBadenoch @Ed_Miliband @TomTugendhat @Nigel_Farage @EdwardJDavey @CatherineWest1 @pmounstephen @SecRubio @VP @SamuelBrownback @vonderleyen @Clifton_BrownG @DesmondSwayne @edvaizey @AmbJapanUK @JubileeC @tozzi_piero @ZelenskyyUa