ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Aaron Arnold

Aaron Arnold is a Senior Associate Fellow with the Open Source Centre, where his work focuses on sanctions and proliferation financing. He also served as the finance and economics expert on the U.N. Panel of Experts for DPRK sanctions, where he monitored global sanctions implementation and investigated instances of sanctions violations.

How AI-powered ‘vibe coding’ threatens North Korea’s illicit IT worker schemes

Use of LLMs for low-level coding could cut off a key revenue stream, and even push the DPRK to ramp up cybercrime

Aaron ArnoldMarch 16, 2026

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How North Korea takes advantage of global corruption to evade sanctions

Making sanctions work requires strengthening weak anti-corruption rules that the DPRK exploits for illicit activities

Aaron ArnoldDecember 24, 2021

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Aaron Arnold

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