It's easy to accuse North Korea. They can't practically respond to the accusations because they have no outlet anyone reads, and if anyone did then nobody would care anyway.
I keep wondering when one of these machines will finally be able to do some tangible, practical work, like taking some input and producing correct output, and do it faster than a traditional computer by atleast one order of magnitude.
I believe this racket has only been growing and growing every decade since. It needs to be brought up more often, and people and organisations with large audiences must dare to speak openly about it.