> > justify hardening laws against hackers > Seems far fetched as North Korean hackers are about as far away as you can get from US influence and power.

The concern that they'd state would be local hackers working for or with those elsewhere for what-ever reason (payment, disenfranchisement with local policies, ...) or just doing it "for the lols".

The potential knee-jerk hardening of laws in response to this sort of thing is not specific to this case: it could equally happen in response to any other very public exploit. The same for the more insidious "we've been waiting for an excuse to..." hardening of laws, for a more paranoid view.