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 Aren’t their technology and information stuff generally outdated?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 In everyone’s impression though, North Korean is a country that has outdated techonology and poor economy development.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

A lot of stuff you hear about North Korea is propaganda, either from NK or America.

So really, North Korea probably has a lot better technology than you’re giving them credit for, and probably a lot of “North Korean Hackers” are just unsolved hacking things that the media knows they can sensationalize to get more clicks if they blame it on North Korea.