Surely North Korea could arrange people to do this, too. They already have people on the ground in the US e.g. to open bank accounts, and they only need this fo

Surely North Korea could arrange people to do this, too. They already have people on the ground in the US e.g. to open bank accounts, and they only need this for candidates that actually get the job, not every interview. You might say the people who interviewed the candidate should be there when he picks up his laptop. But this is already an extremely remote-friendly company, the interviewers might never be in the office. He's going to pick it up from the IT department in the basement and at best they will take a photograph of his face.