Some land six-figure jobs to contribute hundreds of millions of dollars to the regime.North Korean agents are infiltrating global tech companies using fake identities to land six-figure jobs and redirect hundreds of millions to the regime.An independent researcher turned a routine job interview into an intelligence operation when he identified a North Korean computer scientist applying under a false identity. RFA’s Jaewoo Park spoke with him to understand how these agents evade detection.North Korean IT worker exposed while looking for job (RFA video)
Author: Frank M. Everett
Members of the Trump administration suggested to reporters that the president was bluffing when he threatened Iran. but on Sunday, Trump threatened Iranian power plants. PoliticusUSA news and opinions are 100% independent. Support us by becoming a subscriber.Trump posted in part on Truth Social:We are offering a very fair and reasonable deal, and I hope they accept it because if they don’t, the United States is going to destroy every power plant and every bridge in Iran. NO MORE MR. NICE BOY! They will fall quickly, they will fall easily, and if they do not accept the DEAL, it will…
Donald Trump’s lack of national popularity has been a constant feature of his political career. Since the 1980s, Trump has built an entire brand based on the fallacy that he was good at business and savvy about economics. By inserting this lie into American culture for decades and using his reality TV show, The Apprentice, as a megaphone for the message, Trump was able to make his transition into politics based on a myth.During its first administration, Asset He rebranded Obama’s economic success as his own and rode the fumes of what was left of Obama’s economy, but tax cuts…
There is growing evidence that Donald Trump’s cognitive decline is getting worse by the day, and it seems he doesn’t really understand what’s going on in his own administration.PoliticusUSA is 100% independent and will provide news and analysis that those beholden to political parties and special interests will not. Support us by becoming a subscriber.On Saturday, Trump wanted to be praised for his ability to sign his own name.The only tool Trump has to end the war he started, since he has no idea of real diplomacy, is threats.Donald Trump keeps making the same threats:Iran decided yesterday to fire bullets…
The White House shouldn’t be used as the most expensive assisted living facility in the world, but that seems to be what’s happening under Donald Trump’s second administration. The president was showing signs of decline when he ran for the White House in 2024. Trump consistently got the facts wrong, forgot names, and mixed up basic history to the point where he once blamed Joe Biden for World War II. PoliticusUSA is 100% independent. Support our work by becoming a subscriber.If the American people had been paying attention, and if Democrats deserved blame for being afraid to explicitly and repeatedly…
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), a ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, has launched what is being described as a sweeping investigation into Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner’s conflicts of interest between Kushner’s foreign-owned private investment firm and his concurrent government service as a so-called special peace envoy.PoliticusUSA news and opinions are 100% independent. You can support our independence by becoming a subscriber.Kushner works for the Trump administration in the Middle East while accepting money from Middle Eastern governments. Raskin wrote to Kushner:You would now participate as “Special Envoy for Peace” in negotiations on behalf of the United States government to…
Trump claims to have made a fantastic deal to end the war in Iran, but the problem is that the only deal that has been made is that the Strait of Hormuz will be open for as long as the ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon lasts. Negotiators hope a deal can be reached to end the war over the weekend, but Trump appears to be lying to manipulate the stock market, as he did in a series of claims on Truth Social.PoliticusUSA is 100% independent. We are not beholden to any party and our priority is the truth. Support us…
YANGON — Myanmar’s military junta on Friday released award-winning documentary filmmaker and former RFA contributor Shin Daewe, who had been in detention since October 2023 for purchasing a video drone.Outside Yangon’s Insein Prison, Shin Daewe, who was sentenced to life for “complicity in terrorism” in 2024, told Radio Free Asia that there were still many people inside who needed prayers.“I’m the happiest,” she said. “Whether it was me or one of the others, we all wanted to see our families every day. I’m lucky today, but I have a lot of friends who aren’t as lucky as me. I ask…
WASHINGTON – Radio Free Asia (RFA) President and CEO Bay Fang issued the following statement in response to the news that RFA contributor and award-winning journalist Shin Daewe, imprisoned in Myanmar since October 2023 and recently sentenced to 15 years in prison, has been released from prison under an amnesty:”The news of Shin Daewe’s release comes as a welcome relief. Shin Daewe suffered enormously and unjustly for her work in bringing uncensored journalism to the people of Myanmar. This development is a testament to the efforts of many, including RSF and PEN America, to secure her release. I am heartened…
Donald Trump was never smart, politically talented, or good at most of the things a successful politician is supposed to excel at. What Donald J. Trump has always had in his favor is that he has demonstrated a level of commitment that no other candidate or president has shown. PoliticusUSA news and opinions are 100% independent. Support us by becoming a subscriber.Trump’s entire adult life has been built on self-deception, but what has made Trump successful in American politics is his ability to make America believe his illusions are fact.The president has never had an approval rating above 50% in…