North Korea
5 statements across 5 episodes · 0 bullish · 3 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Kim Zetter · said 33 times in 17 episodes since 2019 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by Michael Copeland (7), Marc Andreessen (6), Matthew Colford (5), Joel de la Garza (3), Michael Morell (2), Qasar Younis (1), Mira Murati (1), Matt Spence (1)
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2026 1 mention in 1 episode
2025 2 mentions in 1 episode
2023 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2022 1 mention in 1 episode
2020 1 mention in 1 episode
2019 26 mentions in 11 episodes 2 per episode
- a16z Podcast | How Hacks Happen (Let’s Just Say Mistakes Have Been Made)
- a16z Podcast | Centers of Power, War, and History
- a16z Podcast | What's Next for Technology and National Security?
- a16z Podcast | For Your Ears Only
- a16z Podcast | The Business of Cybercrime
- a16z Podcast | The State of Security
- a16z Podcast | Cybersecurity in the Boardroom vs. the Situation Room
- a16z Podcast | Machine Intelligence, from University to Industry
- 3 more episodes that year, every mention in 2019 →
Everything said about North Korea, oldest first
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Zetter: US government evidence attributing the Sony hack to North Korea is flimsy
“So the idea that the government would say definitively this is North Korea already is a little shaky. And what they've provided as evidence is an IP address that they say is, which they haven't even disclosed the IP address. All they've said is that an IP addr…”
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Andreessen: Taking down North Korea's internet was a weak retaliation
“In the wake of the Sony attacks presuming for the moment that they were from North Korea, from the commercial world wondered if the response to the Sony attacks was to take down the North Korean internet. That didn't seem like a very strong response. North Kor…”
Jan 2, 2019
Colford: Obama national security meetings rarely focused on Asia beyond Sony hack
“I think I can count on one hand the number of DCs and peace deputies committee meetings and principal committee meetings that I remember that were about Asia, and the majority of them were about the Sony hack in North Korea, at least when I was there.”
Feb 6, 2023 negative
Brandon Tseng: Adversaries actively jam U.S. drone GPS and communications
“Russia, China Iran, North Korea, they are building up their electronic warfare capabilities. They are jamming GPS. They are jamming communications, which are traditional assets that we've become so reliant on, our predator drones, our, you know, our smaller ve…”
Feb 28, 2025