i saw a post here once asking about whether banning gambling will actually solve some problems. well even with gambling deemed illegal, it has not completely disappeared from a country. for example, in north korea gambling is illegal for its citizens.
but there are still gambling events that take place most often organized by some authorities or really rich and powerful people. i guess that making gambling illegal is just a way to make it less accessible to the general public but the rich always finds a way.
there was even a case where north koreans are targeting foreigners and selling them their own made gambling platforms.
North Korean IT workers created and sold thousands of illegal gambling websites to South Korean criminals to raise billions of dollars keep in mind that gambling is also illegal in south korea. so my point is, everyone eventually finds a way.
We know very little about how things are in North Korea, to understand it well you need to live there for some time, but I think few of us have such experience, so it is very difficult to assess it now. It is quite possible that there are people who find a way to play, like when I can’t go to a casino website I can use a VPN, and I think that this is widespread in my country, but as for North Korea, I very much doubt that things are the same there, if someone does this, then such players are comparatively very few.