I thought about prior plausibility of the statement that actors for the north Korean regime would lack technical chops, and then I remembered the first north Ko

I thought about prior plausibility of the statement that actors for the north Korean regime would lack technical chops, and then I remembered the first north Korean nuclear weapon test.[1] A source I remember looking up after reading a Hacker News comment a year or two ago points out that the explosive yield from that test was very small, and I see that the Wikipedia article on the topic[2] reports the issue that way. Sometimes the north Korean regime intends to do something skillfully but screws up. I sure wouldn't want to be a smart person living under that regime, and there may be either intentional sabotage of some of their efforts (this has happened in plenty of other dictatorships before, by deeds of dissenters) or the best people they can find to carry out their hacks are not very 1337 hax0rs. [1] http://www.nti.org/country-profiles/north-korea/ http://www.nti.org/country-profiles/north-korea/ http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/09/world/asia/09korea.html http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/09/world/asia/09korea.html http://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/oct/09/northkorea http://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/oct/09/northkorea [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_North_Korean_nuclear_test https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_North_Korean_nuclear_test