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US sanctions Russian, Chinese targets over North Korean IT worker schemes

New designations part of coordinated actions with Seoul and Tokyo to curb DPRK activity in support of nuclear program

The U.S. blacklisted North Korean and Russian nationals as well as Chinese firms on Wednesday for aiding the DPRK’s IT worker schemes, as part of a wider campaign with its East Asian allies to crack down on illicit activities supporting Pyongyang’s nuclear development.

The two individuals are Kim Ung Sun and Vitaliy Sergeyevich Andreyev, who played a role “in a fraudulent information technology (IT) worker scheme orchestrated” by the DPRK government, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) stated in a press release Wednesday.

OFAC didn’t provide much information about the Khabarovsk-basedKim, only stating