{"id":981829,"date":"2025-12-23T12:06:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T06:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=981829"},"modified":"2025-12-23T12:06:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T06:36:20","slug":"amazon-says-blocked-1800-north-koreans-from-applying-for-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/23\/amazon-says-blocked-1800-north-koreans-from-applying-for-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon says blocked 1,800 North Koreans from applying for jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US tech giant Amazon said it has blocked over 1,800 North Koreans from joining the company, as Pyongyang sends large numbers of IT workers overseas to earn and launder funds.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on LinkedIn, Amazon&#8217;s Chief Security Officer Stephen Schmidt said last week that North Korean workers had been &#8220;attempting to secure remote IT jobs with companies worldwide, particularly in the US&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US tech giant Amazon said it has blocked over 1,800 North Koreans from joining the company, as Pyongyang sends large numbers of IT workers overseas to earn and launder funds. In a post on LinkedIn, Amazon&#8217;s Chief Security Officer Stephen Schmidt said last week that North Korean workers had been &#8220;attempting to secure remote IT jobs with companies worldwide, particularly in the US&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-981829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=981829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}