What’s preventing regimes like NK from withdrawing their foreign assets before they do controversial stuff, to stop them from being frozen?

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What’s preventing regimes like NK from withdrawing their foreign assets before they do controversial stuff, to stop them from being frozen?

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Revenue is a tangled mess of money in, and money out. In order to liquidate or transport all NK assets in preparation for doing something, it would very quickly become very obvious that NK are withdrawing their assets. We’re talking about billions in a different industries – that’s easily noticed, especially considering there’s professionals whose jobs it is to look out for that sort of stuff.