Re:Active North Korean campaign targeting security researchers
by CamperBob2 on Thursday September 07, 2023 @03:14PM
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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.
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.