as a way to discourage IT bro’s, we always put in women in the interview and give them the choice of questions to ask, and if they get bad vibes we let them unload.

seems to be a similar tactic

While I am no fan of cryptobros, I gotta admit, that is an effective stratergy

This is a comically simple shibboleth. I’m not even sure you can even call it a shibboleth, actually, considering it’s just a simple screening for “I drink the NK kool-aid” lol

Can’t overcome the Juche!

I seriously believe this will work until someone from sufficiently high up tells them it’s OK to neg him for the Greater Good. But how high would they need to be to dare speak that out?

An open-ended discussion of world politics steered towards the Koreas might also help.

He’s so fat… there are five fat world leaders, and he‘s three of them!