Tim Martin

again, to the point of North Korea's relatively small GDP, which is not even 1% of what the U.S.

's GDP is, these hackers and cyber operatives

bring in at least $1 billion a year to the regime.

And North Korea has also shown itself to be the world's best thief of cryptocurrency.

They've pulled off multiple massive heists of exchanges, even over a billion dollars in a single action.

It would be noisy.

There's so much construction happening in Pyongyang, and it would be noisy not only from the construction and the bulldozers, but also there'd be a lot more cars on the streets.

And not just unrecognizable North Korean brands, you're seeing Chinese EVs.

And we talked with Westerners who had traveled dozens of times to North Korea before the pandemic,

And these same visitors went back, and Pyongyang, at least, looks like any other major city in that lots of people have smartphones, their necks are craned looking at their screens.

This just shows North Korea has more resources, more of a technological digital ecosystem, and they're trying to put themselves more on par with the rest of the world.

In fact, I think the opposite is occurring.

Wow.

North Korea has learned from countries, say, like China.

And you'd think, well, if you have smartphones, you can access the Internet and you can learn about the world.

And this is the complete opposite in North Korea.

They are using technology to tighten its digital news over its population.

Hmm.

North Korean smartphone user doesn't have free run at the internet and information.

Everything is tightly controlled by the regime.