https://www.wired.com/story/north-korean-it-scammer-alert/
“DPRK IT workers can individually earn more than USD 300,000 a year in some cases, and teams of IT workers can collectively earn more than USD 3 million annually,” the alert warns. “DPRK IT workers provide a critical stream of revenue that helps fund the DPRK regime’s highest economic and security priorities, such as its weapons development program.”
North Korean IT workers are the elite party elite paid actors who get the functioning computers, everyone else is also a paid actor but only gets a cardboard cutout of a computer to fool any visiting white people.
North Koreans have to go along with these hijinks or Kim Jong Un will personally execute their entire families with an anti-aircraft gun that fires rabid dogs.