North Korea Seeks AI Collaboration With Russia
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North Korea Seeks AI Collaboration With Russia – Reports
North Korea is sending artificial intelligence researchers and students to Russia and other countries. The move is a bid to strengthen its domestic tech sector even as international sanctions limit these efforts.
“We are sending exchange students, interns and researchers to countries including Russia,” Kim Kwang Hyok, director of the AI Institute at North Korea’s Kim Il Sung University, said in an interview with a pro-Pyongyang outlet based in Japan cited by NK News.
Kim acknowledged that international sanctions remain a major barrier to technological exchange.
“Information technology, especially AI, is a core area under UN Security Council sanctions, so such cooperation faces significant obstacles,” he said.
Despite those challenges, North Korean researchers continue to work on AI applications domestically.