Three North Korean IT Workers Dispatched to China Summoned Less than a Year Later on Suspicion of Plotting to Defect

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It has been reported that three North Korean IT workers dispatched to China were recalled to their home country on suspicion of plotting to defect less than a year after their deployment. It is said that while suffering from reprimands for poor foreign currency earnings and ostracism from colleagues, they relied on and bonded with one another, which became the catalyst for suspicions of a defection plot. According to a DailyNK source in Pyongyan…