I'm not trying to condone North Korea's whole deal, but I do sometimes think about what an amazing job that must be in the abstract sense.

You are paid to use black hat hacking skills to steal money for your country from people you believe to be your enemy, and instead of having to hide or feel guilty you are celebrated by the people you look up to. And you know full well that there will be no repercussions from foreign actors.

That is the absolute dream for a select group of IT people. The rest of the NK experience would not be worth it, but it sounds like such a sweet deal on the surface.