 On a recent spring day in Washington, D.C., I took a trip to the State Department. Nice to meet you. I wanted to talk to Dr. Jung Pak, the Deputy Assistant Secretary of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, to get to the bottom of a crazy story. The State Department first put out an advisory about IT workers from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, or DPRK for short, infiltrating top U.S. companies back in 2022.