Report: North Koreans Are Using AI and Fake IDs to Get Remote Work in West

North Korean engineers are using artificial intelligence and other technologies to fool foreign governments and corporations, landing overseas jobs and earning U.S. dollars to fund the regime of Kim Jong-un, the Asian Nikkei Review reported Thursday. According to Nikkei, U.S. facilitators are aiding the Pyongyang regime in earning foreign currency to fund weapons programs. The newspaper referenced the case of Matthew Isaac Knoot, a 38-year-old man from Nashville, Tennessee, who ran a “laptop farm” with the intent to generate revenue for North Korea’s weapons program. Knoot used the equipment and...