Wow, the Arbtrium freezing North Korean hacker funds case has taken an even more dramatic turn. The U.S. District Court in New York issued a ruling requiring Arbtrium to compensate a group of Americans persecuted by North Korea🤣 The background is that over the past few decades, North Korea has been subject to numerous class-action lawsuits from individuals with American nationality due to acts of terrorism, kidnapping, and illegal detention. However, the North Korean government has never voluntarily paid compensation, so these plaintiffs have been seeking North Korean assets worldwide and demanding the U.S. government to seize and compensate. Before this, there have been many successful cases, the most famous being in 2017 when American college student Otto was arrested and ultimately died after stealing a poster while traveling in North Korea. After his parents sued North Korea and won, the U.S. court ordered North Korea to pay $500 million in damages, but North Korea ignored it. Subsequently, the U.S. government intercepted a large North Korean cargo ship, auctioned it off, and gave it to Otto’s parents.