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Ifang Bremer
Ifang Bremer is a Seoul Correspondent at NK News. He has worked on investigations for The Guardian and The Observer and previously wrote features on Korea for Dutch newspaper NRC.
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News Seoul issues warning about inadvertently hiring North Korean IT workersInstructions come after DPRK personnel reportedly falsified their identities to secure work on freelancing platforms
The South Korean government issued an interagency warning against hiring North Korean information technology (IT) workers on Thursday, after U.N. sanctions monitors reported earlier this year that DPRK nationals were securing freelance gigs online. The statement and instruction issued by Seoul’s National Security Agency and several ministries specifically warn firms to ramp up their screening and conduct more thorough identity checks. © Korea Risk Group. All rights reserved. |