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North Korea Ignores Trump's Overtures
Newsweek
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June 30, 2025
North Korea continues to give the United States the cold shoulder, despite President Donald Trump's apparent willingness to resume dialogue with the country's supreme leader, Kim Jong Un. State media has branded Washington a "hostile force" after...
N. Korea's delegation of elite military academy leaves for Russia amid deepening ties
Yonhap News Agency
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June 30, 2025
SEOUL, July 1 (Yonhap) -- A North Korean delegation, led by the chief of the country's major military school, has left for Russia, Pyongyang's state media reported Tuesday, amid deepening military cooperation between the two nations. Kim Kum-chol,...
N. Korean street vendors vash in on early heat wave
Daily NK
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June 30, 2025
With muggy weather arriving early in North Korea this year, street vendors are profiting handsomely from surging demand for cool drinks and ice cream. A source in South Pyongan province told Daily NK recently that soft drink vendors in busy parts...
North Korean IT workers infiltrated Fortune 500 companies in massive fraud scheme
KLIN News Talk - Nebraska
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June 30, 2025
Former NSA intelligence analyst Rocky Cole joins 'Fox & Friends First' to discuss how China could be targeting the power grid through solar panels on farms and possible spyware discovered on iPhones in the United States. NEWYou can now listen to...
North Korea gives Trump’s overtures the cold shoulder
Hankyoreh
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June 30, 2025
US President Donald Trump speaks to reporters in the Oval Office on June 27, 2025, as he is joined by Foreign Minister Thérèse Kayikwamba Wagner of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (right) and Foreign Minister Olivier Nduhungirehe of Rwanda...
North Korean nationals wanted in cryptocurrency embezzlement scheme; $5M reward
FOX 5 Atlanta - Georgia
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The feds have a big warning after they say foreign agents infiltrated one Atlanta business and stole hundreds of thousands. Agents in the FBI’s Atlanta Field Office announced the indictments of four North Korean men just a little while ago. Now,...
US Announces Crackdown on North Koreans Posing as IT Workers
Bank Information Security - New Jersey
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Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Government DOJ Indictments, Enforcement Actions Follow Nationwide Search for 'Laptop Farms' Chris Riotta (@chrisriotta) • June 30, 2025 North Koreans posed as IT workers to...
U.S. charges 4 North Koreans in cyber plot to fund weapons development
BNO News
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July 1, 2025
Four North Korean nationals have been indicted in Georgia for their alleged roles in a cyber scheme designed to fund the North Korean regime’s weapons and cyber programs, according to prosecutors. The suspects are accused of posing as remote IT...
Mass. US Attorney charges 9 with generating more than $5 million for North Korean weapons program
The Boston Globe - Massachusetts
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A New Jersey man and eight people from China and Taiwan have been charged in a massive technology fraud scheme involving stolen identities and remote IT jobs at companies in 27 states, including Massachusetts and Rhode Island, as a means of...
Four North Korean remote workers indicted in Atlanta fraud scheme
Reporter Newspapers - Georgia
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June 30, 2025
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US charges North Koreans in plot to defraud more than 100 firms
The Straits Times
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June 30, 2025
The North Koreans used stolen identities to gain employment with US companies, according to the indictments. PHOTO: UNSPLASH WASHINGTON – The US Justice Department announced one arrest and charges against nine more people in connection with an...
North Korean IT Workers Charged in $900K Crypto Theft Scheme in Georgia
The Georgia Sun
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June 30, 2025
Four North Koreans have been indicted for stealing nearly $1 million in cryptocurrency from companies in Georgia and Serbia after hiding their identities to get remote IT jobs. 💼 Why It Matters: These hackers used stolen identities and fake...
North Korea Showed Photos Of Military Men Eliminated In The War Against Ukraine
Charter 97
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9 Footage shows the DPRK dictator "mourning" the soldiers. For the first time, North Korea has recognized and shown the military personnel liquidated in the war against Ukraine. This is reported by Yonhap. Photos showing North Korean leader Kim...
US authorities unmask North Korean IT worker schemes and their American accomplices
Cybersecurity Dive
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June 30, 2025
The Department of Justice on Monday announced a series of actions as part of an investigation into the North Korean government’s deployment of its citizens abroad to pose as IT workers and illicitly earn money for the regime. Newly unsealed...
DOJ raids 29 ‘laptop farms’ in operation against North Korean IT worker scheme
The Record
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June 30, 2025
Nearly 30 “laptop farms” across 16 states have been raided by U.S. law enforcement in recent months for their suspected role in a long-running North Korean IT worker scheme. The Justice Department on Monday announced a coordinated action that...
Pyongyang shows footage of North Korean soldiers killed in Ukraine for first time
Ukrainska Pravda
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North Korean soldiers killed in the Russo-Ukrainian war. Photo: The Korea Herald North Korean state-run media have released footage of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un mourning his soldiers who were reported to have been killed in Russia's war...
North Korean tyrant Kim Jong-un weeps over coffins of troops he sent to die in Putin’s meatgrinder war in Ukraine
The U.S. Sun
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June 30, 2025
KIM Jong-un wept as he watched himself back draping flags over the coffins of North Korean troops he sent to die on Putin's front-line in Ukraine. Around 12,000 North Koreans were shipped over to fight for Russia - but they were ill-prepared for...
FBI arrests one man, searches laptops in 16 states in crackdown on North Korean tech-worker scheme
Crossroads Today - Texas
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(CNN) — US law enforcement has arrested a New Jersey man and searched stashes of laptops in 16 states in a sweeping crackdown on North Korean efforts to use remote tech workers to covertly fund their weapons programs, the Justice Department said...
Buckhead business owner says remote workers he trusted turned out to be North Koreans who stole $1M
WSBTV - Georgia
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July 1, 2025
ATLANTA — The FBI says an Atlanta tech entrepreneur was targeted by North Korean criminals, according to a newly unsealed federal criminal indictment. “It felt like I was in a movie. That’s where we see these things, right?” Marlon Williams told...
US Charges North Koreans in Plot to Dupe More Than 100 Firms
Mint
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July 1, 2025
The US Justice Department announced one arrest and charges against nine more people in connection with an alleged scheme in which North Koreans posed as American tech workers to gain lucrative jobs and fund the country’s government. The North...