North Korea sent me abroad as a secret IT worker. I financed the reign in my wages

Jin-Su used hundreds of fake IDs to apply for remote IT work with Western companies for years. It was part of the huge detective plan to raise funds for North Korea.

He told the BBC in a rare interview that he would make him a minimum of $ 5,000 (7 3,750) a month for many jobs in the US and Europe. That said, some colleagues would make more money.

Before he condemned, Jin – Sus – whose name has been replaced to protect his identity – it is believed that secret North Korea was sent to China and Russia or Africa and elsewhere abroad to participate in the dark work run by Korea.

North Korea’s IT workers are closely monitored and some have spoken to the media, but Jin-Su has given a wide witness to the BBC, which has given an insight on how the daily life is for those who work and how they work. His first account confirms that the UN and Cyber Security Report are estimated.

He said that 85% of the people he got was sent back to the dynasty. North Korea has been under international restrictions for years.

“We know that this is like a robbery, but we only accept it as our destiny,” Jin-Su said, “It is still much better than we were in North Korea.”

According to a UN Security Council report published on March 224, Secret IT workers for North Korea produce M 250m-M 600m every year. All countries (diseases of the partner) are everywhere, according to the scheme, when the remote work has become normal and has been increasing since then, and since then the officials and cyber defenders have been intimidated.

Most workers are sent again to the rule after regular paycheck, but in some cases they stole data or hacked their owners and demanded a ransom.

The previous year, A US court accused 14 North Koreaians He earned M88M by working in a costume over six years and removing American companies.

Four North Korea, who used a fraudulent identity for the safety of remote IT, was convicted last month for remote IT work for a cryptocurrency firm in the United States.

For many years before Jin-Su was blamed, IT workers were for the rule of China. He and his colleagues will most likely work in the 10 teams, he told the BBC.

Access to the Internet in North Korea is limited, but abroad, these IT workers can work more easily. Westerners did not make much money by the western people, so they need to be dedicated to their nationality, but North Korea is mainly in response to its nuclear and ballistic missile programs due to widespread international approval.

The scheme is different from North Korea’s hacking operations that raise money for the rule. At the beginning of this year, the Lazzers Group – a notorious hacking group realized that they were working for North Korea, though they never entered it – Believed??

Jin-Su tried for the safety of fraudulent identities that could use most of his time to apply for a job. He will first pose as a Chinese and contact people from Hungary, Turkey and other countries and asked them to use their identity in exchange for their income percentage, he told the BBC.

“If you put a ‘Asian face’ on that profile, you will never get a job.”

He then uses the identity of the loan to the people of Western Europe to identify them, which he uses to apply for a job in the US and Europe. Jin-Su has often found success in targeting the UK citizens.

He said, “Due to a little chat, the people of UK went so easily to their identity,” he said.

These good English -speaking workers sometimes handle the application process. But the jobs on the freelnser site also do not require face -to -face interviews, and often there are everyday interactions on platforms like slack, making it easier for you to pretend to be the person you are not.

Jin-Su told the BBC that he targeted most of the markets, “because the salary is high in American companies”. He claimed that many IT workers were looking for a job, often companies rent more than one North Korean. “It happens a lot,” he said.

It is understood that IT workers collect their earnings through a network of facilities in West and China. A US woman was sentenced to more than eight years in prison last week IT workers to find jobs and send money for crimes connected to North Korean people.

BBC cannot independently verify the characteristics of Jin-Ses Witness, but by PscoreAn organization that advocates for the human rights of North Korea, we have read the testimony from the other IT workers who support Jin-SU’s claims.

The BBC also spoke to a separate defactor Hun-Cingy Licashi, who was working as a professional for the rule of China while working among the people of North Korea. They confirmed that they had similar experiences.

The BBC spoke to multiple rent managers in the cyber security and software development sector who said they discovered dozens of candidates who were suspected of being an IT worker of North Korea during the rental process.

Rob Henley, a co-founder of Alley Security in the United States, was recently working for a series of remote vacancies in his firm, and in this process he is believed to have interviewed 30 North Korea IT workers. “In the beginning, it was like a game, such as trying to find out and who was fake, but it was very annoying,” he said.

Finally, he tried to ask the candidates at the video call to show that it was a time of day.

“We were just working for these posts for these posts. It should have been at least light outside. But I never saw the day.”

In March, a video of a remote job interview conducted by David Mokzado, co-founder of Vidoc Security Lab in Poland, shared a video of a remote job interview where the candidate appeared to be using an artificial intelligence software to wipe his face. He said that after talking to experts, he believed that the candidate could be North Korea’s IT worker.

We contacted the North Korean Embassy in London to keep the allegations on them. They did not respond.

North Korea state has been sending workers abroad for decades to get foreign currency. Up to 100,000 work is done as a factory or restaurant worker mainly in China and Russia.

After many years of living in China, Jin-Su said that “the feeling of banning” about his atrocity work situation.

They said, “We were not allowed to go out and had to stay at home all the time.” “You can’t exercise, you can’t do what you want.”

However, North Korea’s IT workers have more freedom to enter the Western media while abroad, Jin-Su said. “You see the real world. When we are abroad, we realize that something is wrong in North Korea.”

But despite this, Jin-Suu claimed that some North Korean workers thought about his departure like him.

“They just take money and return home. Very few people have to think about the brunt of the people.”

Although they keep a little bit of what they earn, but in North Korea it has a lot of value. To blame is also extremely dangerous and difficult. Surveillance in China is mostly caught. People who succeed in blaming may not again see their families again, and their relatives had to face the punishment for their relatives.

Jin-Su is still working in it. He says that the skills of working for the rule helped him settled in his new life.

Since he is not doing multiple jobs with a fake ID, he gets less money than he worked for North Korea’s rule. But he can keep his income more, overall, he has more money in his own pocket.

“I was accustomed to making money by illegal things. But now I work hard and make money I deserve.”