As a South Korean, it is interesting to me that their translation of the technical terms which originate from English is quite different to ours. In general, the loanwords in North Korean tend to follow the meaning of the original words, whereas those in South Korean follow the pronunciation of the words.<p>For example, "system memory" is translated as "시스템 메모리" in South Korean, which is basically a transcription that reads as [siseutem memori]. In contrast, the same word is translated to "체계기억기" in North Korean, which is composed of 체계(=system), 기억(=remembering), 기(=machine), as shown in the last figure.<p>And also, they tend to use less word spacing in general. "관리자가입정보설정" in North Korean would be written "관리자 가입 정보 설정" in South Korean. It's much alike German word compound vs. English word composition (Bundesverfassungsgericht vs. Federal Constitutional Court).
There was a interesting talk on 31c3 by Will Scott, who spend a year teaching computer science in North Korea titled.<p>He showed Red Star and their Android version (towards the middle of the talk): <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w703MQZcDhY" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w703MQZcDhY</a>
In reference to DHCP vs static IP. There was an article about someone looking at their browser:<p><a href="https://blog.whitehatsec.com/north-koreas-naenara-web-browser-its-weirder-than-we-thought/" rel="nofollow">https://blog.whitehatsec.com/north-koreas-naenara-web-browse...</a><p>That one is funkier. Some ancient netscape version. The most shocking thing to me was that the whole country seem to run on a single 10.x.x.x network!
The UI is very OS X-like but the most obvious difference is the buttons aren't shiny enough. They have this slightly weird "depressed" look to them.
There is another good article [1] on this topic that explains how to change the language to English ( even for the installer ).<p>1: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8856979" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8856979</a>
Wait did they really implement all this OSX cloning in North Korea? Are you sure this isn't subset of some skin developed outside of NK? It must have required a considerable amount of resources and skills. Do they have it?