https://apnews.com/article/north-korea-weapons-program-it-workers-f3df7c120522b0581db5c0b9682ebc9b
Court documents allege that the government of North Korea dispatched thousands of skilled IT workers to live primarily in China and Russia with the goal of deceiving businesses from the U.S. and elsewhere into hiring them as freelance remote employees.
Sure. They are known for punishing defectors like this, so it isn’t exactly hard to find examples.
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/korea/forced-relocation-07202022182032.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/07/north-korea-defectors-families-concern
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/09/world/asia/north-korea-china-defectors.html This one is interesting because it covers IT specialists working abroad to make money for the regime. No mention of family in that one but it does cover how all the workers live together and are instructed to spy on each other.