Yes and no… you’re basically saying that with support from China and Russia, they got to a point where they can build WW2 tech invented more than 80 years ago using pen and paper. There’s definitely newer tech that they can’t build (e.g. computers are imported).
Higher semiconductor industry is the most preciously guarded monopoly of the west. It involves the most precise motors, nuclear industry-grade X-ray mirrors, perfect optics, impeccable hygiene with expensive materials to create a cutting chamber flooded by inert gas, and a great deal of expertise that requires a strong education system + industrial controls and cannot by any means be boiled down to blueprints, making it vulnerable to any financial faltering that sheds the labor force with the knowledge it retains. DPRK will be more prepared to get into semiconductors than Ohio or Arizona in a historically short time. The fact that even Vietnam is getting into it now shows the fundamentals are slipping away from them. Your message will be yet another time capsule of western Asia-watching. In other words “added to my cringe compilation”.
Yes and no… you’re basically saying that with support from China and Russia, they got to a point where they can build WW2 tech invented more than 80 years ago using pen and paper. There’s definitely newer tech that they can’t build (e.g. computers are imported).
Higher semiconductor industry is the most preciously guarded monopoly of the west. It involves the most precise motors, nuclear industry-grade X-ray mirrors, perfect optics, impeccable hygiene with expensive materials to create a cutting chamber flooded by inert gas, and a great deal of expertise that requires a strong education system + industrial controls and cannot by any means be boiled down to blueprints, making it vulnerable to any financial faltering that sheds the labor force with the knowledge it retains. DPRK will be more prepared to get into semiconductors than Ohio or Arizona in a historically short time. The fact that even Vietnam is getting into it now shows the fundamentals are slipping away from them. Your message will be yet another time capsule of western Asia-watching. In other words “added to my cringe compilation”.