It’s to push their beliefs and ideology.

What the FUCK do these liberals think they are doing every day on social media?

X11 used to require very cumbersome MANUAL configuration, where you would specify the exact parameters of your keyboard, mouse, monitor, and other peripherals. If you accidentally ended up overclocking your monitor it would melt. For at least a decade, it has been able to run with no configuration file at all, but in the 90s/early 2000s you had to produce a unique >75 line xorg.conf file for your specific hardware.

let them fight

Knowing very little of the specifics, it would be trivial for the DPRK to set up their own CA. They probably do have a CA. The issue is that Western software distributors (operating systems, browsers, etc) probably wouldn’t want to include DPRK CAs in their CA stores. Likewise, organizations within the DPRK probably don’t trust CAs located in the West, even if they are operated by nominally allied organizations. This problem can be solved by including their domestic CAs in software distributions (they have their own Linux distro, after all) and distributing tools to easily install them on other operating systems.

Do you know if this applies just to outward-facing websites, or is this a problem across the board on their domestic networks?

The politics of folks like RMS (personal issues aside) were far above average, but the Free Software Movement was very steeped in liberalism from its onset, and that explains many of of its present shortcomings. Its biggest failing was to believe that Free Software would ultimately win on its merits. In the early days this was understandable, when free software was often playing catch-up to replicate the functionality of established commercial offerings. When the GNU project was just a C compiler you could install on proprietary UNIX systems to dick around with.

Today though, Free Software is more often than not superior to commercially available offerings, with the exception of some niche industrial segments. But still, Free Software adoption by end users remains incredibly marginal. No matter how many merits Free Software stacks in its favor, the “Year of Linux on the Desktop” never comes. We are still drowning in proprietary iOS and Android phones. The overwhelming majority of PCs still ship with Windows. All of it deliberately engineered to become E-waste in a couple of years.

Folks, this won’t change unless we take over the factories where these PCs and phones are manufactured.

Coming up on 30 years!