A company that the United Nations has aver is afront for North Korean intelligence agencies , Global Communications Co. ( Glocom ) , has continue its effort to advertise sanctions - rape military ironware on Facebook , Twitter , and YouTube , Motherboard reportedon Wednesday .
Glocom , which has in the past tense presented itself as a Malayan company , was revealedin 2017 by Reutersto really be a North Korean front that sold sanctioned field of battle radio set equipment and accessary , with an internal UN report state it appeared to be run by the Reconnaissance General Bureau , which is “ tasked with abroad performance and weapons procurement . ” The society wasbanned from YouTubethat year , but it made a homecoming to that program under a Modern television channel and also set itself up on Twitter , Motherboard wrote .
Both companies removed the accounts when the site attain out for comment . Glocom also has Facebook , Instagram , and Linked accounts that Motherboard describe “ appear to be much less active . ” Facebook tell the web site it would investigate .
While this could be study as an example of the elbow room platform that rely hard on automation for moderateness purposes are constantly engage in a game of whack - a - mole , North Korea is well known for its persistence in evading international sweat to contain its influence .
North Korea allegedly operates a panoptic web of front companies in the clientele of everything fromfacial recognition technologyandcomputer programmingto illicit activity likedrug smuggling and counterfeiting . It also reportedly maintains access to outside trade byusing cargo shipswith faux flag , faked usage manifests , and deactivated tracking systems . All these activities have patently beenenabled by backdoorsin the world financial system , such as extraneous intermediaries . According tosome reports , Malaysia in particular has turned a blind eye to these operation .
However , the continued enjoyment of the Glocom brand after its unmask looks like more or less unusual . Motherboard wrote that Shea Cotton , a research familiar with a North Korea focal point at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies , told them in an email that “ using them as platforms to market authorization dishonor intersection ” and its doggedness was unusual :
Cotton said “ this company continues to operate openly . Most D.P.R.K. [ popular Peoples ’ Republic of Korea ] fronts , when scupper , usually fold or at the very least close down and move their operations to another country and re - overt under a unexampled name . This one has n’t done that . We ’ve find out them seek to make this spin off stain called ‘ FACOM ’ and trade a few of their products under it but as you ’ve see their master stain is still thriving ostensibly . ”
Cotton separate the land site that “ To me it suggests that despite the negative publicity they must have established some sort of customer base that respects their brand . I ’d be very curious who precisely that is . ”
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