I think this is a useful framing. North Koreans have the brains, the organisational skills, and the drive to build an ICBM and a bomb, in spite of the fact that

I think this is a useful framing. North Koreans have the brains, the organisational skills, and the drive to build an ICBM and a bomb, in spite of the fact that most of the rest of the world is against them, and most of their own people don’t even have enough to eat. Rather like the last white South African administration in that regard (although I believe they had some help from a friend with their free fall bombs), who had enough to eat but were sanctioned heavily but still managed to operate functioning cities.