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8/13/2025

Topic Reading-Vol.4859-8/13/2025

Dear MEL Topic Readers, 
North Korea sent me abroad to be a secret IT worker. My wages funded the regime
North Korea has been imposed economic and financial sanctions by many countries, including the US, the EU, India, Japan, and the UN for more than a dozen years to pressure it to give up its nuclear projects, cyberattacks, money laundering, and human rights violations. But the world’s most secretive and authoritative nation still needs to earn foreign currencies to purchase electric parts, equipment, machinery, oil, and luxury items for the elite from other countries. They send dancers and singers to state-run Korean restaurants abroad to earn money and send it back to North Korea. Also, they make their IT specialists disguise their identities to work for foreign employers and send back most of their earnings to the regime. Those IT workers abroad make little money for themselves, but most of them feel their lives are better than back home. In some cases, such workers are forced to engage in stealing data or hacking their employers to demand ransoms. How will North Korea use agentic AI to manage the international sanctions?
Read the article and learn about secretive North Korean IT workers working abroad.

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