North Korea has been sending IT workers to get remote US jobs, according to the FBI and DOJ.
The workers have been using these jobs to raise money for North Korea's ballistic missile program, the US agencies said.
The money they earned was funneled to the North Korean weapons program, FBI leaders said at a news conference in St. Louis.
AdvertisementAdvertisement"We can tell you that there are thousands of North Korean IT workers that are part of this," spokeswoman Rebecca Wu said.
The IT workers generated millions of dollars a year in their wages to benefit North Korea's weapons programs.
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