Well, by comparison, Iran is very competent at cyber but they keep getting their uranium centrifuges hacked. North Korea, on the other hand, already didn't get

Well, by comparison, Iran is very competent at cyber but they keep getting their uranium centrifuges hacked. North Korea, on the other hand, already didn't get hacked, and built the bomb. They have a lot less money than South Korea, and their political system is...what it is...but I don't see any reason a North Korean can't study just as hard as a South Korean and achieve similar results. I think people confuse North Korea's suffering with weakness. I'll grant that there is a lot of hunger, but the mission from the beginning, of the guerrilla fighters who now run the country, was sovereignty at all costs. And I'd say purely in terms of sovereignty North Korea is doing remarkably well.