Excuse me, WHUT? Exclusive: California EDD Fraud Money Paid for North Korea Nukes?

One of North Korea’s top exports is hair.

That’s not a typo and you did not read that wrong and it doesn’t mean fur or wool. It means hair.

In 2023, North Korea exported “feathers, artificial flowers, hair” to the tune of $167 million, nearly half of its legal exports.

How then does a country that exports hair pay for its nuclear weapons program? By crime, consisting mostly of illegal arms sales, counterfeiting other currencies like dollars, and cybercrime.

Enter California’s Employment Development Department.

During the pandemic, the California Employment Development Department (EDD) lost somewhere between $39 and $50 billion dollars to fraud and, according to security experts, a very large chunk of that ended up in North Korea, at least enough to help fund its nuclear missile program.