Huawei secretly helped North Korea construct its commercial wireless network, a Washington Post report has claimed. The revelation, if true, would mean the company violated US export controls. According to Reuters, which cited unnamed sources, Huawei, an American company, was contracted by Pyongyang in 2015 to build and maintain a network of mobile towers that could be used for both domestic and international communications.
Huawei secretly helped North Korea construct its commercial wireless network, a Washington Post report has claimed. The revelation, if true, would mean the company violated US export controls. Huawei worked with the Chinese state-owned firm Panda International Information Technology on various covert projects in North Korea over a period spanning at least eight years, according to the report.