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A First Time for Everything: N Korea Experiences First-Ever Bank Robbery

© AP Photo / APTNThis image made from Associated Press Television News video shows North Korea’s Central Bank on Monday, Feb. 2, 2015, in Pyongyang, North Korea
This image made from Associated Press Television News video shows North Korea’s Central Bank on Monday, Feb. 2, 2015, in Pyongyang, North Korea - Sputnik International
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An unspecified amount of cash was stolen from a branch of the North Korean Central Bank on April 4, in what reportedly became the first bank heist in the history of the country.

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On April 4, a group of unknown gunmen broke into the Shinam branch of the North Korean Central Bank, located in the city of Cheongjin, where they stole an unspecified sum of money. The crime became the country's first-ever robbery in history, the Korea Times quoted Radio Free Asia as saying this week.

The bank, located in North Hamgyong Province, is currently out of service, with local police suggesting that there was an accomplice inside the bank on that day.

"The robbery wouldn't have been possible without an insider's help," a police spokesperson was quoted by the Korea Times as saying.

The April 4 robbery prompted other branches of the country's Central Bank to beef up security by bringing in more personnel, according to the newspaper.

It also drew attention to the fact that banks across North Korea stocked more cash than usual in the run-up to the country's rare congress of the ruling Worker's Party of Korea due to begin on May 6.

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