[permo-w]

hacking provides a significant portion of the North Korean economy. the same cannot be said for the USA.

besides, the CIA has a lot more to lose. if you get a virus downloading a PDF from North Korean servers, that's The Scorpion and the Frog. you're not gonna get much sympathy. if you get a virus downloading a PDF from CIA servers, that's near enough an international incident

[hnarn]

Doing things that may cause international incidents is, while avoided as a matter of priority, literally the CIA’s job.

[permo-w]

something directly provable like a trojan pdf on their website would be doing that job extremely poorly