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Kim Jong-un’s rogue state is being probed over claims it was been behind a heist which saw £75 million swiped from the Federal Reserve of New York.

North Korea's government is being investigated by FBI agents after the account was emptied to unknown parties overseas in a stunning cyber heist.

Federal prosecutors are reportedly preparing charges against the thieves who are claimed to have acted on behalf of Pyongyang.

FBI agents believe Chinese middlemen acted on behalf of the North Korean government to seize the cash from the account of the Bangladesh Bank, reports the Wall Street Journal.

Prosecutors are focusing on North Korea due to lines of code used in the hacking tools linked to a previous Pyongyang hack of Sony Pictures in 2014.

The film studio was hacked after The Interview – a satirical film about North Korea – was released much to the fury of Kim.

Kim Jong-un has continued to rage against world with missile and nuclear tests after the alleged assassination of his stepbrother Kim Jong-nam.

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“If that linkage is true, that means a nation-state is robbing banks," Richard Ledgett, the deputy director of the National Security Agency, said.

He added: "That is a big deal; it’s different.”

Daily Star Online previously revealed the outrageous acts North Korea has committed to fund their infant nuclear programme.

This website revealed Kim Jong-un’s crime network covering everything from drug dealing to smuggling run by the top-secret Office 38 in Pyongyang.

US Navy SEAL Team 6 is also being deployed near North Korea as part of the war exercises Foal Eagle and Key Resolve carried out by allies Washington and Seoul in South Korea.

The squad who killed Osama bin Laden and practicing their part in a “decapitation” scheme to wipe out the North Korean leadership in Pyongyang.

Tensions have reached an all-time high with Kim Jong-un have reached an all-time high as North Korea issued a nuke threat “if a single bullet is fired”.