Not spoken about here is the fact that Lazarus __did__ make off with well over a billion dollars in funds by hacking numerous cryptocurrency exchanges around Asia and got away with it, too.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2021/02/09/north...
Oh, and this is just KuCoin they're talking about here. They stole well over $3 billion more from several other exchanges in 2017-2018. All the exchange hacks back then on the various Asian exchanges are attributed to them. Really likely they made off with upward of $5 billion in today's terms of all sorts of altcoins.
https://www.coindesk.com/north-korean-hacking-group-lazarus-...