The company’s CSO said on LinkedIn the agents are looking to help “fund the regime’s weapons programs.”

BY AVA LEVINSON, NEWS WRITER

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Amazon has blocked nearly 2,000 job applications from North Korean applicants who are suspected to be helping their government, according to Stephen Schmidt, the company’s chief security officer and former FBI agent. 

Schmidt said people living in North Korea, or the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), have been applying for remote IT jobs, and increasingly the high-demand........

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