Success seemed easy and cheap. “You could argue that they have one of the most successful cyber programs on the planet, not because it’s technically sophisticated, but because it has achieved all of their aims at very low cost,” said Chris Inglis, a former deputy director at the National Security Agency. To some degree the North Koreans learned from the Iranians, with whom they have long shared both missile technology and a belief that the United States is the source of their problems. In the cyber realm, the Iranians taught the North Koreans something important: When confronting an enemy that
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