How can North Korean have top talented hackers? Aren’t their technology and information stuff generally outdated?

Question

I have frequently read news like “North Korean hackers” hacked into a company’s account and stole data, money, etc. In everyone’s impression though, North Korean is a country that has outdated techonology and poor economy development. Their citizens therefore should have bad education.

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>Their citizens therefore should have bad education.

Not all of them. When I was in China studying chinese, there were a few north korean students in the same program as us (different section/level). They looked well-off enough and educated enough to be allowed to leave and study chinese abroad.