North Korean IT workers
North Korean IT workers appears in 10 analyzed articles across the measured technology press. Recent coverage is steady, counting every mention over recent months. This page shows the public snapshot: movement, coverage mix, recent sources, and what drove the latest change.
Compass measures press coverage, not North Korean IT workers's product quality, business performance, or market value.
Counting every mention, coverage of North Korean IT workers is steady — it appears in 10 analyzed articles across the technology press.
What North Korean IT workers coverage is made of over time: story type, claim stage as reported, and press framing. This measures the coverage, not the product.
Across 10 classified coverage items, one item is 10 percentage points — read the shares below as the shape of a small sample, not as figures precise to the point.
Story type and claim stage are shares of the 10 classified coverage items in this window.
How to read this
The stream below stacks each month's coverage by the lens you choose: Tone (how the press frames the story — promotional, skeptical, critical, or neutral), Story type (launches, funding, lawsuits, partnerships…), or Stage — how far the reported claim has gone: speculation → announcement → launch → results.
Taller bands mean more coverage that month; the dots beneath mark notable non‑neutral events. Every signal is sourced and dated.
How this is counted — why the article numbers differ
10 articles mention North Korean IT workers across the corpus. The coverage make-up above is measured on the 7 of them that were read into dated, classified coverage items — and one article can produce more than one item, because story type, claim stage and framing are read separately.
- Inside the fake crypto startup that fooled North Korean IT workersCointelegraph.com
- US Nabs 8 ‘Laptop Farmers’ for North Korea over 5 monthsCointelegraph.com
- North Korean IT Worker Gets Hacked, Secrets RevealedCointelegraph.com
As of 8 Oct 2026 · corpus coverage 94% · 358,204 articles. Correlational & coverage-limited.
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