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I hope the author has removed all meta-data or otherwise reencoded the images such that no traceback is possible to the source to the OS.

There was a talk [1] that IIRC mentioned that some userid is "baked" into the OS and its apps and can potentially be traced back to an individual.

[1]: https://media.ccc.de/v/32c3-7174-lifting_the_fog_on_red_star...

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This is almost certainly from the ISO that is already online. Some Chinese person on a forum told me once that they went to North Korea and were able to just buy the OS at a store, but I don't know how accurate this is.

Considering they can purchase phone apps very easily on convenience stores, that seems reasonable to me.

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