North Korea’s Remote‑Worker Money Pipeline

State‑run North Korean cyber/IT units (often operating via China and U.S.-based facilitators) place operatives into remote tech jobs, collect most of their pay, and use employment as both revenue generation and a vector for espionage or extortion. The model scales via pandemic‑era remote hiring, fake job portals, and crypto payrolls, creating a blended sanctions‑evasion and cyber‑infiltration threat. — This reframes remote work and recruitment platforms as national‑security and sanctions‑enforcement frontiers, prompting changes in corporate hiring, payroll oversight, and international financial controls.