The U.S. government has warned that North Korea is using its IT engineers to undertake work such as developing apps for Western companies to earn foreign currency and fund weapons of mass destruction and missile development projects.
The US Department of State, the Treasury, and the FBI = Federal Bureau of Investigation released information about North Korea on the 16th.
According to this, North Korea has earned foreign currency by having its own IT engineers who are active in Japan and overseas undertake the development of mobile terminal apps and games from Western companies by pretending to be nationalities.
He warns that the foreign currency obtained is used as a source of funds for the development of weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles.
It has been pointed out that North Korea has sent workers to construction sites and factories in China and Russia to earn foreign currency and use it as a source of funds for the development of nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles.
According to the State Department and others, North Korean IT engineers can earn at least 10 times more foreign currency than these workers, sometimes more than $ 300,000 a year per person, or more than 38 million yen in Japanese yen. ..
In some cases, IT engineers abused their ability to connect to the network as a contractor to help a group of North Korean hackers break in.
The US government has warned companies that "if you engage in or support the activities of North Korean IT engineers, you may be subject to sanctions by the United States and the United Nations."