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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