North Korean operatives and American accomplices accused in massive fraud that infiltrated the Fortune 500 and stole millions
North Korean operatives and American accomplices accused in massive fraud that infiltrated the Fortune 500 and stole millions
"Stole*
it was a job, they did work
You forgot that North Korea is not allowed to have anything ever. If they do, it's a scandal.
Millions of dollars that were stolen from the working class to begin with.
I want to see the violations and wage theft that the capitalists did to their DPRK employees.
Legit how does NK seem so un-infiltrated by western agents, so much that they have their own spies, while Iran and Russia seem so compromised?
Is it just the length of de-linking from the global economy?
It's because North Korea has no bourgeois class to speak of; both Russia and Iran have a ton of rich businessmen who desperately want to normalise with the West so they can make more money. This class of people simply does not exist in North Korea. Likewise, let's say you want to bribe a North Korean to work with you; how the fuck do you even pay them? Pay them with what? North Korea is entirely cut off from the global financial system, there's no workarounds that exist, unlike places like Russia and Iran.
You combine this with the DPRK state taking collaboration and intelligence far more seriously because it's a communist state, not just a global South aligned would be capitalist state like Russia or Iran. The DPRK is run by communists who watched the United States devastate their country in living memory, they take security extremely seriously. There's a reason the DPRK has nukes and Iran doesn't, and it's entirely because of this difference. Communists have no hope that they'll be able to work with the West, they see no benefit to working in good faith with those who would seek them dead.
There's a reason the DPRK has nukes and Iran doesn't, and it's entirely because of this difference.
They learned the lesson from watching the fall of Gaddafi. The lesson: never give up your ability to mutually assured destruction, lest the west destroy you.
Im pretty sure NK actually does have capitalists. Most of them cooperatized, but there are special economic zones like china
Might have something to do with Iran and Russia being capitalist, torn by contradictions, led by liberals and ideologically idealist.
There's no way into the country to reach them.
The Korea border is closed. The Russia border is only used for official trade. The China border is leaky but your security against cia ops is China in that regard, the Chinese killed every cia operative in the country not long ago.
There definitely are spies, the border w china is pretty open so people go between all the time. Ik there used to be feds who during the famine in the 90s would ask people to cut off ox tails for money because ox lose their balance and strength to till the land without their tails etc
Theres probably just a genuine active culture against espionage because culture is such a big element of juche.
They don't lose their balance, but they do lose the ability to fend off pests. USA has a history of insect-based biowarfare against Korea, though, we know that for certain. I know the interview you're talking about, I always wondered if they misinterpreted what the opps were going around doing
Just a reminder, due to covid the border between China was also closed off, even people with family struggled to get through. It's only very recently (last year-ish) I think that it's opened up to those people. So it's been even more secure.
i do think it is probably a bit naive to assume 'there are no western spies in North Korea' lol, there very well may be - they're just not very good at their job!!!
Juche ftw!
A lot of spies in the global south have ties to their respective diaspora communities. There is no north Korean diaspora community unless you count being a TV freakshow in hell joseon.
The UN declaring that NKs should be kidnapped and trafficked to south Korea where they will be likely imprisoned in poverty and discrimination for the rest of their lives has not done anything to actually flip anyone who matters.
Being a NK "defector" already means being labeled as an enemy of the DPRK, literally no space for infiltration unless, again, you count being a racist zoo spectacle for true crime enjoyers.
Also, it's called Expropriation, sweaty.
I wonder if this is even real
They just did their job and got paid as a normal IT worker. They used fake identity due to unjust sanctions that restricts them from getting jobs abroad. It's the old "shoot them at their leg and then make fun of them"
5 million. So like a hammer and box of nails for the army if you include the graft? Waow. So impactful.
As always, this is probably just a standard corruption scheme that got exposed and they're blaming the DPRK for it to stoke racist hatred amongst the populace.
no more half measures walter
"Stole millions" they were paid for their labor.
North Korea accused of underhanded plot to provide services in exchange for payment
the duplicitous asiatic has cooked up a dastardly scheme in which he exchanges his labor power for currency!
The new "north korean scam" is just doing a job lol. It's the narrative the imperialist media is pushing recently, yt recommended me some videos on it as well about this "scam". I watched them and it's literally
Here's one of them titled "we hired north korean scammers" https://youtu.be/Y7x0gvfFa0Q
Isn't this literally a Keye and Peele sketch?
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy: