For all we know, North Korea may be preparing to show the world for the first time something more powerful than what any other scientists have ever created, a computer that breaks encryption way before the known most powerful quantum computers can. In fact, it would be an advantage to Kim. Yet, living in this fear is no good. Because what is the point?
Hey that sounds like a plan!
Kim could put as much bitcoin as he can muster into an address ad pretend to "break" it, or even pay people who have existing large addresses that have survived a long long time so far already to pretend his famous hacker team "broke" it.
Use chatGPT type things if necessary to manufacture "superhumanly convincing despite not being true" rationalisations for why they haven't bothered to break this that or another address that someone or someones propse ought to be broken by them if the world is to be convinced they really have the capability they claim to have...
-MarkM-