If you think about it, DPRK can afford to send hacker-to-be's to top engineering programs in Europe and the United States, and then bring them back to NK as bla

If you think about it, DPRK can afford to send hacker-to-be's to top engineering programs in Europe and the United States, and then bring them back to NK as blackhat hackers. The current leader went to boarding school in europe - and enjoyed the privileges awarded in that social circle. Corruption doesn't always make logical sense, nor is it limited by morality! A very simple idea. Find bright kids. Send them overseas to the US primary education system. Their parents stay behind in NK and are bound to the society in NK - the kids need to perform well in school in order for the government to keep giving the parents a reasonable life. Upon graduation from primary and secondary school in say, California, the kids enroll and try as hard as they can to get into Stanford. Graduate from the CS department, get a phd doing original work in encryption algorithms, and then when they are adults, they return to NK knowing that their parents had a good life b/c of their hard work. Now you get some nice black hat hackers! Basically this is how Kim Jong Il created a new young dictator willing to threaten nuclear war. I don't doubt their cyberwarfare division is run in a similar way.