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 Aren’t their technology and information stuff generally outdated?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 In everyone’s impression though, North Korean is a country that has outdated techonology and poor economy development.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

Yeah, most of them probably do. But that doesn’t mean their top-tier talent isn’t highly educated. That’s honestly true of basically every country in the world. I mean in the US only about 36% of people can identify North Korea on a map. But that doesn’t mean the US doesn’t have incredibly smart well educated people.