The US spy agency posted callouts on YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn and the dark web.
The US Central Intelligence Agency has launched a new drive to recruit informants in China, Iran and North Korea.
"We want to make sure individuals in other authoritarian regimes know that we're open for business," a CIA spokesman said in a statement. "I can't remember any sort of recruitment effort like this, using YouTube or social media in this way, at least in Korean," said Mason Richey, associate professor of international politics at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul.
US intelligence considers North Korea, Iran and China "hard targets" when it comes to intelligence gathering, given the harsh level of surveillance all countries employ to stamp out dissent. "I suppose you have to assume the CIA knows what it's doing, but you do wonder how many of these discontented people are close enough to power and close enough to the places where important decisions are made," he said.
"You’ve got people inside who... for lots of different motivations fundamentally do not like the direction that Xi is taking the country and understand that there’s a path to helping their own country by working with us," he added.
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