Comment by shevy-java

I saw a few documentaries about North Korea. Now, I'll skip the potemkin-village propaganda part of the regime, but I was quite surprised that they had skilled developers too and modern equipment / computers. Granted, this was an exception (Pyongyang is an exception in general anyway) and naturally in these documentaries you can only see what the regime feeds you, but even then I was surprised to see that they weren't like, say, 20 years behind or something like that. It may not be anywhere near as close to the quality in South Korea, but the image of some retrolooking guys from the 1945s is also incorrect. Of course a lot of this is weird, since they perfected the potemkin village strategy where things look so extremely bizarre like from almost 100 years ago now, but then they have some designated people roleplaying as computer designers and architects, and they actually are not totally clueless but know some things (that is, they are not all playing the potemkin part at all times, all the way).