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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Maroosha Muzaffar

Amazon says over 1,800 North Koreans blocked from applying for jobs at tech giant

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American tech giant Amazon claims to have blocked more than 1,800 job applications from suspected North Korean operatives as the East Asian nation faces accusations of deploying IT workers overseas to generate and launder money for its nuclear weapons programme.

Amazon chief security officer Stephen Schmidt noted in a LinkedIn post that North Koreans had been ”attempting to secure remote IT jobs with companies worldwide, particularly in the US”.

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