In the last two years, North Koreans pretending to be from somewhere else have gotten remote jobs at hundreds of Western companies using fake resumes. The number of North Koreans working in IT jobs for western companies has exploded by 220% in the last year alone.
It’s been a major problem for two reasons. First, North Korea is sanctioned by the US and European governments because of the regime’s banned nuclear weapons program, meaning companies risk being fined or worse if it is discovered they are hiring North Koreans.
Second, North Korea has one of the largest state-sponsored hackers programs in the world. If they are working inside a global IT company, they could potentially get access to sensitive data and weaponize it, which they are known to do.
However, one company found a clever, simple, and cheap way to expose possible North Korean workers. During the interview process for an IT company, an interviewee was asked to insult the Dear Leader Kim Jong Un.
Insulting the country’s dictator Kim Jong Un can be a death sentence. It is no laughing matter, but what happens next is almost comical.
Click on the video to see how the potential North Korean employee reacted to the question.
