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North Korea has its own internal internet service. The regular internet is only available through official channels. They have a hacking curriculum at their two major universities, and it wouldn't surprise anyone if they were learning from the Chinese hacking community. It's very unlikely that this is endorsed by the Chinese government however, since they don't like that North Korean regime any more than we do. They want to keep it alive and dormant, not stirring up shit with the west.

Chances are it's just the DPRK trying to pull a "me too" after seeing how effective China is at challenging more conventionally powerful countries through hacking. The difference is China uses hackers mostly for industrial espionage, while North Korea mostly uses it for petty crime to fund the regime.

It apparently didn't occur to them that China is so successful in its hacking campaigns because it can plausibly deny that the government had anything to do with the hacking. Since the DPRK controls all access to the wider internet, any action you can tie to North Korea, is automatically tied to its government.