North Korean IT Operative Abroad: “My Salary Was Funding the Regime”

North Korea Agent JPG

Jin Soo says he used hundreds of fake IDs over the years to apply for remote IT jobs with Western companies. This was part of a large-scale, covert operation aimed at generating financial resources for the North Korean government.

In a rare interview with the BBC, he revealed that by holding multiple jobs in the U.S. and Europe simultaneously, he earned at least $5,000 a month—though some of his colleagues reportedly made significantly more.

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