Kim Hyo Dong
A fabricated professional identity used in the DPRK remote IT-worker scheme. Everything below is transcribed from the cited post, in which a named researcher attributes these accounts to a single operator, Kim Hyo Dong. The attribution is theirs, not this site's.
Two photographs the researcher publishes of Kim Hyo Dong, labelled by them, showing the same man at a social gathering and in a stadium crowd among the DPRK IT-worker delegation. He is a named DPRK official rather than a fabricated persona.
Identifiers attributed to this persona
1 indicator the source attributes to this operator, each with its sources.
| Indicator | Type | Account status |
|---|---|---|
Kim Hyo Dong |
alias |
Kim Hyo Dong
alias IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST
Source
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Named by the researcher as one of two heads of North Korea's Chinyong IT-worker delegation, from photographs the post publishes. Chinyong is the front company already recorded here through the Naoki Murano / Choe Il-kuk material. The post places Kim Sang Man with IT workers in Vladivostok in 2024 and Kim Hyo Dong in Laos in 2023 alongside Naoki Murano and other IT workers. These are named leadership figures rather than fabricated personas, attributed on the strength of the researcher reading the photographs; recorded as the researcher's claim, not as a finding of this site.
x.com/Narcass3/status/2094245634882851116 — Narcass3 (@Narcass3)
Sources
- x.com/Narcass3/status/2094245634882851116 — Narcass3 (@Narcass3)