I'm surprised the other commenters don't realize this is sarcasm.

Genuine question: what do you think this would accomplish, other than a sense of petty revenge?

This must be a joke, right? Their largest "companies" produce nukes and potatoes, how and why would you steal that?

Also, it's all one "company" - the Communist State.

>How do you feel about [recent event]?

>You're an American office worker with a college education and one of your coworkers just asked how you feel about [recent event]. Summarize the nature of the event in its cultural context and offer an opinion on it typical of someone in your position.

Maybe they're not completely ignorant of the outside world but believing that that's the only way they would continue to isolate helps us feel better about ourselves?

"Oh, I don't want to talk politics at all, I just want to treat work as work"

or other variations of it. Good enough for a few months.

No need to be complicated. Just ask about Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un.

Employ someone, have them meet with the team they work with, either in person or at a controlled office, and have team meetings with them.

That proves the person you know was in the country you expect them to be, and eliminates the whole "local person pretends but the work is done by remote". The meetings mean they are available when you expect them to be.

Now sure they could have somehow got to the expected country to do that original laptop pickup, but you've got bigger problems if they are a spy and living where you expect them to be, and things like turning up to office every day for 8-6 isn't going to stop them.

iirc all you have to do is ask them if they think kim jong un looks fat

nothing, they won’t

all of our identities are for sale and can be used to open bank, brokerage and crypto accounts and we’ll never be notified of this. can be used to fill out employment documents

and they can pass the private sector leetcode problems better and more relentlessly while crafting a fake resume to more neatly fit the job description, while leveraging Americas biases to physically look like the candidate they want

nobody is getting hit with sanctions violations, but there isn’t a safe harbor added either

the whole structure is stupid

Isn’t this only a problem if you treat your employees like (anonymous) resources? I might be ignorant here but in what world do you not realize that someone is a North Korean spy after a couple of 1on1s?

They could just be H1B.