[madengr]

Yes

[nyolfen]

they can develop a fully-fledged nuclear program with ICBMs and hydrogen bombs but they can't scour public resources about launch detection systems

[monocasa]

Why? It's all public information. And the sense I've gotten is that the North Korean engineers overall seem competent, they just lack resources.

[nugi]

To play devils advocate, their resources being limited is a huge boon to our reletive superiority. This post does in effect concentrate them into an actionable plan, with minimal effort. That said, I am pretty sure the dark zone is only theoretical, due to limited publicly available data on likely classified access.