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Re:How not to hire a North Korean plant posing as a techie' by toss1 on Thursday October 19, 2023 @08:45AM (#37942104)
No, it is an entirely fact-based move to reduce the risk of empowering totalitarian regimes with advanced information technology and advanced weapons technology, including nuclear weapons.

Note that the warning comes from South Korea, so are they pushing a racial bias against themselves?

Yes it really sucks to have to endure racial biases, which are a fundamentally stupid way of dividing the world. But that does not mean that everything is an example of such bias.

Re:How not to hire a North Korean plant posing as a techie' by garba_dlm on Thursday October 19, 2023 @08:46AM (#37942126)
yes, that's what they're doing.

because they hate North Koreans, because it's part of their government.

how this works is described in "1984" (by Orwell), which is a fictional work.... ahahahhaah