https://apnews.com/article/north-korea-weapons-program-it-workers-f3df7c120522b0581db5c0b9682ebc9b
Court documents allege that the government of North Korea dispatched thousands of skilled IT workers to live primarily in China and Russia with the goal of deceiving businesses from the U.S. and elsewhere into hiring them as freelance remote employees.
This is why despite North Koreans being dumb enough to think Kim Jong Un doesn't poop, I love that they're all family men down to a man; thousands and not even a few percent of them defecting regardless? They're amazing. They could also still keep contact with the press and the CIA anonymously, but then again after the last time the press/CIA released the identity of the guy helping them which saw his family get executed they're probably scared; I can't recall who that person is and I can't seem to be able to find info on him but it must have happened cause why else wouldn't they keep in contact with the press/CIA anonymously through the internet?
Unless for their thousands of IT workers they also have thousands of handlers, and their thousands of handlers also have their own handlers. The Chinese and Russian government would also have to be collaborating with this system to be allowing North Korean handlers to be keeping watch over their charges and to be doing so secretively, but they're the bad guys so I'm sure that's happening.
God I love that real life is like a James Bond movie.