[sleepingeights]

The company called Facebook has already implemented features within their services to allow censorship, control, targeted* and mass propaganda efforts, monitoring and surveillance, etc... on targeted* and mass user bases, and is already selling these features to regimes for access to their citizens, and to provide regimes in-depth surveillance access to the social networks. Including, the regime apparatus within the US such as FBI, CIA, etc... Facebook is an "intelligence" product sold both to the US and to other nations. Their company has people who were high executive officers in the "intelligence" and surveillance apparatus in the US (CIA, etc...).

It's not the problem of whether North Korea is implementing these features, as North Korea did not create anything original but rather see's these features already being provided. The problem that Silicon Valley and the US has is that companies (err... countries) like North Korea are implementing (or have implemented) it before their own companies have and that diminishes their capacity to claim IP to related implementations.

* targeted: meaning they can target individuals, and various sizes of groups based on sophisticated and targeted profiling. Trump's campaign used this to divide and conquer the 2016 election.