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North Korean agents pretending to be IT guys have funneled up to $1 billion into Kim Jong Un’s nuclear program
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North Korean agents pretending to be IT guys have funneled up to $1 billion into Kim Jong Un’s nuclear program

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October 4, 2025
North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un attending a meeting with a committee of the Workers' Party of Korea about the test of a hydrogen bomb, at an unknown location. North Korea said it detonated a hydrogen bomb designed for a long-range missile on September 3 and called its sixth and most powerful nuclear test a "perfect success", sparking world condemnation and promises of tougher US sanctions.
Finance

North Korean IT worker infiltrations exploded 220% over the past 12 months, with gen AI weaponized at every stage of the hiring process

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August 4, 2025
U.S. Attorney for Washington, D.C. Jeanine Pirro at a podium with President Donald Trump
Finance

Arizona woman in North Korean IT workers scheme sentenced to 8.5 years for helping to trick Fortune 500 companies out of millions

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July 24, 2025
A man sitting at a desk with multiple screens showing green letters.
Finance

An American who helped North Korean IT workers rake in $17.1 million faces sentencing in scheme that tricked hundreds of Fortune 500 companies

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July 19, 2025
North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un walks to a meeting with US President Donald Trump in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) on June 30, 2019, in Panmunjom, Korea.
Finance

North Korean operative reveals the inner workings of the IT scam infiltrating the Fortune 500—‘They had no idea that we were from North Korea’

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July 2, 2025
North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un greeting children in 2024.
Tech

‘This is the mafia’ — How North Korea structures its IT workers like an organized crime syndicate

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May 18, 2025
Kim Jong Un, North Korea's leader, reacts while watching an honor guard before his departure to North Korea at the railway station in Vladivostok, Russia, on Friday, April 26, 2019
Tech

The North Korean IT worker scheme infiltrated an American election campaign website

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May 12, 2025
A person gets a manicure
Tech

Nail salon employee pleads guilty after holding 13 remote IT jobs worked by developers in China

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April 27, 2025
North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un during a press conference, June 19, 2024, in Pyongyang, North Korea.
Tech

Fake LinkedIn profiles, Webex, and Fiverr: Inside the North Korean IT worker scheme roiling the Fortune 500

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April 16, 2025
Kim Jong-Un in 2018.
Tech

North Korean IT workers are spamming tech firms with fake résumés. One founder says he came up with ‘a foolproof way’ of weeding them out

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April 10, 2025
Photo of Kim Jong Un
Tech

Thousands of North Korean IT workers have infiltrated the Fortune 500—and they keep getting hired for more jobs

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April 7, 2025
Merrick Garland
Tech

Thousands of North Koreans stole Americans’ identities and took remote-work tech jobs at Fortune 500 companies, DOJ says

By Eric Tucker and The Associated Press
May 16, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) talks with North Korean Leader Kim Jong-un during their meeting on April 25, 2019 in Vladivostok, Russia

Shunned by the West, Vladimir Putin turns to North Korea’s Kim Jong Un as an ally

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August 15, 2022
North Korean fraudsters suspected of copying people’s LinkedIn and Indeed profiles in a bid to land jobs at U.S. crypto firms
Tech

North Korean fraudsters suspected of copying people’s LinkedIn and Indeed profiles in a bid to land jobs at U.S. crypto firms

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August 1, 2022
Kim Jong-un likely to let his missiles do the talking as Biden enters the White House
Politics

Kim Jong-un likely to let his missiles do the talking as Biden enters the White House

By Jon Herskovitz and Bloomberg
November 29, 2020

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