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Without internet access, does it really matter?

I pray you don't work in IT...

I get the impression there aren't many corporate IT departments in NK. Not sure what your point is.

In any case, most malware these days is designed to either steal information and phone home or make the infected computer part of a botnet or both. Without an internet connection (whether the PC is in a LAN or not), the practical risk is pretty minimal.

NK would still be vulnerable to something similar to Stuxnet. A highly-targeted sneakernet-based attack could be used to very, very slowly migrate information from flash drive to flash drive into and out of NK, or for sabotage.

Oh, absolutely. But a targeted attack with that level of sophistication is hardly going to let a few Windows updates get in its way.

Key point everyone forgets in today's IT sector and you said it yourself is LAN. To say NK lacks LANs is foolish, to maintain any kind of the military or industrial operations they have, requires some form of LAN, as do any type of similar thing anywhere in the world. Plus forgetting the internal LAN setups, NK has it's own state run nets used for commerce and operations with neighboring China.

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