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North Korean IT workers are stealing remote jobs and raking in billions—and Americans are helping them do it
Amanda Gerut / Sat, April 25, 2026 at 6:02 AM GMT-5The North Korean IT worker scheme, in which operatives get remote tech jobs at U.S. and European companies, is an important part of a broad campaign of malfeasance by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) that has generated about $2.8 billion in the past two years to help fund the country’s nuclear weapon ambitions, according to the UN’s Multilateral Sanctions Monitoring Committee. The committee, which tracks DPRK sanctions violations and evasion tactics, revealed in January that the scheme has now victimized 40 countries around the globe. A large portion of that total is the result of crypto theft, but the IT worker scheme reliably generates $250 million to $600 million per year in fraudulent salaries, the UN has found.
North Korean IT workers are stealing remote jobs and raking in billions—and Americans are helping them do it
“North Korean IT worker schemes would not be successful without U.S.-based facilitators,” wrote Assistant Attorney General John Eisenberg in an April sentencing memo.
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The greatest athlete you've probably never heard of
They didn't ban her for cheating—they banned her for being so impossibly good that she made everyone else look ridiculous.
Los Angeles, 1932. The Olympics. Twenty-one-year-old Mildred "Babe" Didrikson showed up to compete in track and field. Women were limited to just three events, so Babe chose strategically: javelin, 80-meter hurdles, and high jump.
She didn't just win. She obliterated the competition.
Gold in javelin. Threw 143 feet, 4 inches. World record.
Gold in the 80-meter hurdles. Ran it in 11.7 seconds. World record—breaking her own time from earlier that same day.
In the high jump, she cleared a height no woman had ever reached. Another world record.
Then officials disqualified her for diving over the bar headfirst instead of feet-first—a technique now standard but considered "improper" for ladies in 1932.
They gave her silver instead.
Babe looked at them and said: "I'd have gone higher if you'd let me."
But here's what made Babe Didrikson legendary: she wasn't just the best female athlete of her time. She became the only athlete ever—male or female—to win individual Olympic medals in separate running, throwing, and jumping events.
Think about that. Not just the best woman. The only human. Ever.
Born in 1911 in Port Arthur, Texas to Norwegian immigrant parents, Babe grew up poor. Her mother had been a ....
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They didn't ban her for cheating—they banned her for being so impossibly good that she made everyone else look ridiculous.
Los Angeles, 1932. The Olympics. Twenty-one-year-old Mildred "Babe" Didrikson showed up to compete in track and field. Women were limited to just three events, so Babe chose strategically: javelin, 80-meter hurdles, and high jump.
She didn't just win. She obliterated the competition.
Gold in javelin. Threw 143 feet, 4 inches. World record.
Gold in the 80-meter hurdles. Ran it in 11.7 seconds. World record—breaking her own time from earlier that same day.
In the high jump, she cleared a height no woman had ever reached. Another world record.
Then officials disqualified her for diving over the bar headfirst instead of feet-first—a technique now standard but considered "improper" for ladies in 1932.
They gave her silver instead.
Babe looked at them and said: "I'd have gone higher if you'd let me."
But here's what made Babe Didrikson legendary: she wasn't just the best female athlete of her time. She became the only athlete ever—male or female—to win individual Olympic medals in separate running, throwing, and jumping events.
Think about that. Not just the best woman. The only human. Ever.
Born in 1911 in Port Arthur, Texas to Norwegian immigrant parents, Babe grew up poor. Her mother had been a ....
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