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Red Star 4.0 (2017). Good luck finding it, I haven't.

So far, even though we know Red Star 4 exists and has for years now, it's very elusive with (AFAIK) no disc images yet found.

I think that there was a rumor that it was FreeBSD based instead of Linux based but don't quote me on that.

According to Wikipedia, a South Korean magazine got a copy, but they never uploaded the disc images.

However, they did takes a few screenshots. Red Star OS 4 is still MacOS-inspired but with a little more modern of a Mac look - think Mavericks (Red Star OS 3 inspiration) -> Yosemite (Red Star OS 4.0 inspiration). With a touch of Chrome OS and GNOME in there for good measure.

https://www.nkeconomy.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=3191

https://www.nkeconomy.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=3213

https://www.nkeconomy.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=3292

Did they take photos of their screen because it was running on a computer they didn't own or did they really have access to the ISOs (and for some reason didn't take screenshots)?

No idea. Could have been a visitor to North Korea who took photos on the tour (North Korea now does sort-of permit photos in certain areas to tourists).

If I remember rightly, 3.0 was sold in shops in North Korea? At least that's what the talk on it mentioned

Might just be a game of finding someone who goes to NK for teaching or the like to pick up a copy while there for archiving

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