You do not want the Treasury Department knocking on your door to ask you why you're sending money to a North Korean front company in exchange for slave labor.
Work with one of the 20 countries that the USA has a FTA with. From what I understand (I'm not a lawyer), these agreements have a chapter dedicated to cross border trade in services which includes dispute resolution.
curious, so if you see some devs from those countries applying for your jobs, are you relating them to the news and automatically rejects them based on those countires?