Huawei Technologies Co., the Chinese tech firm blacklisted as a national security threat, secretly helped the North Korean government build and maintain the country’s commercial wireless network, according to internal documents obtained by The Washington Post.
Huawei partnered with a state-owned Chinese firm, Panda International Information Technology Co Ltd, on a number of projects in North Korea over eight years, according to the Post.
Past work orders, contracts and detailed spreadsheets taken from a database that charts the company’s telecom operations worldwide were obtained by the Post. The arrangement made it difficult to discern Huawei’s involvement.
