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 Aren’t their technology and information stuff generally outdated?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 In everyone’s impression though, North Korean is a country that has outdated techonology and poor economy development.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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Answer 1

I suspect that the grey area between what we are told about North Korea and what actually happens in North Korea is vastly bigger than we imagine.

And the same applies to almost every country/community out there that Western governments (used as an example as I suspect most of us consider ourselves as Western inclined) want to portray as bad (or good).