this post was submitted on 19 Oct 2023
163 points (100.0% liked)

technology

22683 readers
1 users here now

On the road to fully automated luxury gay space communism.

Spreading Linux propaganda since 2020

Rules:

founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
 

https://apnews.com/article/north-korea-weapons-program-it-workers-f3df7c120522b0581db5c0b9682ebc9b

Court documents allege that the government of North Korea dispatched thousands of skilled IT workers to live primarily in China and Russia with the goal of deceiving businesses from the U.S. and elsewhere into hiring them as freelance remote employees.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ordinary people in North Korea don’t even know that people in other countries can freely choose to study abroad when they want to. They don’t even know the expression “study abroad.”

lmao

This is garbage from a professional defector (left in 2005) with no ability for the reader to verify anything, published by a single-purpose anti-DPRK propaganda mill.

Do you have a more compelling citation?

Things like these make me wish the US didn't ban its passport holders from even setting foot in the DPRK, some irony that is