Song Min Kim 김성민 high
Also known as: Chengmin JinAllen KimKim Song Min
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Photo
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Wanted-notice details
Status: Subject of a Rewards for Justice reward offer of up to $5 million, published April 2026; identified by the Justice Department as a suspected DPRK IT worker in the District of Massachusetts case, not among the defendants charged in it
| Role | Managed an information technology company based in the DPRK, per the Rewards for Justice notice |
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Caution
Song Min Kim (a.k.a. Chengmin Jin): Managed an information technology company based in DPRK and assisted in the creation of a U.S. company through which his employees could obtain remote IT work with other U.S. companies.
Song Min Kim (a.k.a. Chengmin Jin): Managed an information technology company based in DPRK and assisted in the creation of a U.S. company through which his employees could obtain remote IT work with other U.S. companies. From 2021 to late 2024, these individuals compromised the identities of more than 80 U.S. persons to obtain remote jobs at over 100 U.S. companies. They participated in a scheme to create credible fake American citizenship documents, register U.S. shell companies and bank accounts, gain technical employment with U.S. companies, receive wages, launder and remit that money to banks and individuals in China, and ultimately facilitate the transmission of the illicit funds to the DPRK regime. The scheme involved assistance from at least four U.S. citizens who hosted employer laptops in the United States through which the DPRK IT workers could, without authorization, remotely access company networks and perform work.
Reward
Rewards for Justice is offering a reward of up to $5 million for information that leads to the disruption of financial mechanisms of persons engaged in certain activities that support North Korea (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, DPRK), including money laundering, exportation of luxury goods to North Korea, specified cyber-activity and actions that support weapons of mass destruction (WMD) proliferation. Such activities include work by highly skilled North Korean nationals sent abroad whose income generates funds for the DPRK regime.
Sources
Every factual claim on this page is drawn from the public records listed below.
- North Korea Money Laundering - 9 Individuals: Rewards for Justice reward offer of up to $5 million — Rewards for Justice, U.S. Department of State, 2026-04-23 wanted notice
- Two U.S. Nationals Sentenced for Facilitating Fraudulent Remote Information Technology Worker Scheme that Generated $5M in Revenue for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea — U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Public Affairs, 2026-04-15 press release
- Justice Department Announces Coordinated, Nationwide Actions to Combat North Korean Remote Information Technology Workers' Illicit Revenue Generation Schemes — U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Public Affairs, 2025-06-30 indictment