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South Korea said it would retaliate against North Korea if it continues its provocations. The statement followed Pyongyang threatening to deploy tactical strike weapons to its southern border.  “Now the situation of the southern border is very unstable,” Kim Yo Jong, a senior North Korean official and sister to Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un,  said […]

North Korea test-launched several ballistic missiles. According to Japan, one of the munitions appeared to be a hypersonic missile.  Jang Do-young, spokesperson for South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff, said North Korea fired several missiles from near Pyongyang into its eastern waters. Seoul reported one of the missiles traveled more than 900 km. Japanese officials […]

IMF Warns Tokenized Markets Could Amplify Financial Risks Authored by Nate Kostar via CoinTelegraph.com, Tokenization could reshape financial markets by making trading and settlement more efficient, but legal uncertainty and risks to financial stability could hinder wider adoption, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). In a Thursday analysis, the IMF said tokenized financial markets are growing rapidly but remain small compared with traditional markets, with poor interoperability and a lack of widely accepted settlement assets among the key obstacles to expansion. The gap between tokenization's potential and its current scale is evident...