A lawyer representing victims of North Korean terrorism has intervened in the Arbitrum DAO forum, arguing that 30,765 ETH frozen after the rsETH exploit should be allocated to satisfy decades-old judgments against North Korea. The claimants, who have won cases related to the 1972 Lod Airport massacre, the abduction and killing of Reverend Kim Dong Shik, and the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war, have been unable to collect on their judgments due to North Korea's lack of sovereign assets. The lawyer's filing argues that the frozen ETH, linked to the Lazarus Group hacking unit, qualifies as North Korean property under U.S.
enforcement law, giving the victims a senior claim on the funds. However, delegates have raised concerns that blocking the release of funds could shift the cost of North Korea's debt onto a different set of victims, namely the original rsETH depositors.