What are the odds this is actually just "some immigrant workers from the DPRK got jobs at call centers, and sent money home to their families which was then taxed by the DPRK or otherwise spent in ways that ended up paying the state in some fashion," instead of a real conspiracy by state agents to provide call center workers in exchange for a portion of their extremely low wages?

Alternate headline: Millions of workers have their wages sent to the US government to fund weapons programs. Every day. For decades.

In North Korea they don't have computers or the internet, so to train IT workers they sit in a big auditorium and listen to one person read zeros and ones off a big book through a megaphone.

See?! They're transferring money. It must be for missiles!

lol, the DPRK has a single account for ballistic missiles that everyone transfers to or something? Did the workers put 'nukes' down in their Venmo?

Weird round about way of justifying the end of remote work

That's weird, liberals told me in no uncertain terms just 2 weeks ago that North Koreans aren't allowed to leave so nice try lying FBI

Wait, I thought North Koreans weren't allowed to leave? And if they did, they would defect? And if they left, they'd have access to the rest of the world and see what living in a normal society with internet and TV would be like? The North Korean government is stupidly incompetent; this sounds like a recipe for the birth of thousands of willing CIA assets. Also thousands of people spilling the beans anonymously to the news about the horrifying reality of life in North Korea. I'm sure that's exactly what happened too but I'm not hearing about it cause I haven't checked the news too closely; I mean it must have happened, we were promised about how the North Korean population are all basically the DPRK's prison population, eager for freedom.

Haha, can you imagine how dumb the average North Korean is because they definitely believe Kim Jong Un doesn't poop? Haha, dumb North Koreans, not like us smart Westerners. They can't even get haircuts unless it makes them look like the supreme leader!

How do they know that the money is specifically sent to missile programmes? Is there a DPRK ICMB Patreon or something like that?

Money is free speech when it's our businesses and political donors, but it stops being free speech when that's inconvenient for our foreign policy narrative.

Amazing how free Koreans learn IT while subsisting on a diet of rats.

I feel like this can only mean workers in China sent money to their families and an income tax was applied

big if troo!

thousands of remote IT workers sent wages to North Korea to help fund weapons program.

the nation we bombed to smithereens and embargoed for 73 years needs to seek extra-legal means of securing a national revenue. One of the forms this took was doing real labor generating surplus value for the American bourgeoisie and then sending their pittance wages back to the DPRK. We will use this as propaganda against them to justify hurting them even more. We are the baddies!

Based IT workers

Fuck fuck fuck they caught me

I wish someday to be 1/10 as based as this

Death to America

using juche necromancy to open a portal directly into the us treasury and funneling it all into a giant woodchipper like machine with one end labeled 'cash' and the other end 'magic missiles'

I hope great lich kim destroys the phylacteries of the US ghouls

The west could’ve had thousands of skilled North Koreans working normally for them. But instead they forced the country into siege mode. They have no one to blame for the weapons program but themselves.

Sounds a lot like every community of working immigrants, you can find a lot of places around here where I live where you can have a set up to wire money internationally, because yeah lots of immigrants send money back to their family home, a crazy concept for the brain geniuses of the FBI