Oops, someone's missed how they've been focusing on technology as a weapon for over a decade, how two of their top universities are almost entirely technology-focused, how they have acted when they want certain skills (you wouldn't think such an education system would produce people capable of making a nuclear arsenal either, because you forgot that they study physics there as well), and how, a few years ago when they were trying to look more open, there were companies explicitly outsourcing technical work to North Korean companies.
Your summary is accurate for a lot of people, because they don't focus on giving good educations to people they won't trust and they have a large list of people who are to be denied trust, but when someone is found in the trusted group who demonstrates skill with computers, which they have imported and set up in many schools, that person gets doomed to a life of technology-themed slavery instead of the farming or construction-themed slavery a lot of others find themselves in. The country doesn't have millions of skilled IT people, but thousands of people skilled enough to pass an interview and start collecting paychecks, some of whom are actually capable of doing the job, that they have.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
