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Re:Active North Korean campaign targeting security researchers by rurp on Thursday September 07, 2023 @02:54PM (#37423833)
I can't speak for the general public but my own impression of the country is that its nuclear weapons and isolation make it incredibly dangerous, and the problem is only getting worse as their arsenal increases.

Plus they have pulled off a number of hacks that became mainstream news so I would expect plenty of people to think that North Korea has competent software developers.

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Re:Active North Korean campaign targeting security researchers by CamperBob2 on Thursday September 07, 2023 @03:14PM (#37424121)
What really makes me nervous about the DPRK is just how successful they have been at getting the rest of the world to prop them up. Successful models get imitated.

Intuitively, we'd expect Kim to envy Putin, but at some point it occurred to me that the opposite notion seems to be better at explaining the behavior we've seen lately from Russia. If Putin's agenda were to turn Russia into a nuclear-armed failed state that the rest of the world has no choice but to prop up with aid in perpetuity, it's hard to see what he would be doing differently.

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