The starving, and heavily repressed citizens do not have access to the internet in NK. This attack did not affect any of them to any extent.

Whom it did affect a bit, hopefully, were the people complicit in the repressive dictatorship that runs the country.

The repressive dictatorship that engages in, among many other bad things, scams and online fraud to partially finance the country. For this they of course use the internet. So, taking them off-line for a week may have prevented someone from getting scammed. Good result.