Tennessee Man Used 'Laptop Farm' To Fund North Korean WMDs: DOJ

Daniel Salisbury is an associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute and a senior research fellow at the Department of War Studies at King's College London, and spoke to Newsweek about North Korea's surprisingly common use of offshore workers. He pointed to a similar case in May, in which a woman was accused of helping North Koreans gain freelance IT employment at U.S. companies. Salisbury said that, while the pandemic and the growing prevalence of remote work has made this issue more pertinent, it is far from a new phenomenon. "The DPRK has long used overseas workers to raise revenue which has likely been channeled to its WMD efforts," he said. "Often this labor has involved more traditional jobs such as working in Chinese factories, Russian logging camps, on overseas construction projects or in DPRK restaurants overseas."