My respect for the DPRK and the PRC’s leadership just keeps increasing every time the US bombs or coups another country. Both countries beelined towards nuclear weapons the moment they were able to, then foresaw the consequences of an unfiltered internet dominated by wealthy western corporations and sought to rectify that. They then demonstrated the effectiveness of scientific socialism by developing faster than any other nation in comparable circumstances, showing how it is imperialism, not ‘authoritarianism’ or whatever, that cripples a nation’s economic development and the livelihood of their people.