North Korean IT workers use fake IDs, laptop farms to dupe foreign firms
TATSUYA SUDO and RYO NAMIKI
TOKYO -- New data provides a rare look at how North Korean IT engineers earn foreign currency by using false identification and controlling computers in other countries, luring companies to hire them online and unknowingly fund Pyongyang's missile and nuclear weapon programs.
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