Yes only the elite have the internet, but also the internet is likely used internally for communication, which is important for resource distribution.
I don't give two shits about the elite in NK, but the starving folks living there have my deepest sympathy.
I'm lucky to have a lot of advantages, and I can't help but see many of them as an accident of birth.
I think I can make it simple. Would love to hear of any cases refuting this.
If the country is on the US State Department's 'Sponsored' program list (currently DPRK, Iran, Sudan, and Cuba) it doesn't count. Florida terrorism ok, you get a pass and called a hero: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Posada_Carriles
Comparing to other more recent Florida originated attack on against a poor country, the assassination of Haiti's president. Haiti is not on that country approval list, go directly to jail: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/four-florida-men-arrested-plo...
No internet means less control. Brings them closer to the starving folks level, more chance of actually being a "people's republic" then. There's not much government worth salvaging in that country, basically an army.
The only loss would be them improving their security now. Other world governments may have left that vulnerability untouched purely in case they need to use it at a later stage.