And unlike his nuclear arsenal, cyberweapons could be used against his greatest enemy—the United States—without fearing that fifty minutes later his country would be a smoking, radioactive cinder just north of Seoul. Kim recognized that the inevitable US threats of imposing additional economic sanctions against the North for malicious cyber activity were largely empty.*3 In short, cyberweapons were tailor-made for North Korea’s situation in the world: so isolated it had little to lose, so short of fuel it had no other way to sustain a conflict with greater powers, and so backward that its
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