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Inspecting North Korea's Digital Map App: Licensing and API Insights

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Re: Inspecting North Korea's Digital Map App: Licensing and API Insights

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> What do you mean “accepted”? Universities have to be accredited for other universities to accept their transfer credits. If companies want you to have a four-year degree then they have to believe you when you say you have one. > Is it illegal to learn in a country even if it’s a dictatorship? It's illegal for US citizens to do a lot of things with North Korea specifically, if you don't have permission first. That's…

> That's how economic sanctions work. Those are political sanctions desguised as economic sanction.

They're not disguised at all.

The stated purpose of these economic sanctions is to degrade the ability of an authoritarian regime from functioning to reduce the threat that it poses in the region and bring about political and economic change.

Re: Inspecting North Korea's Digital Map App: Licensing and API Insights

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Someone recorded a few car journeys and put them on Mapillary.

Here is one that anyone interested can check out.

https://www.mapillary.com/app/?pKey=1680771775466497&lat=39....

Probably the closest thing to a Street View that we will get from there for a while.

Re: Inspecting North Korea's Digital Map App: Licensing and API Insights

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From the linked 38north.org article: > An older version of the app, version 1.1, was previously detailed by Alek Sigley, an Australian student who previously lived in Pyongyang while studying at Kim Il Sung University. How does that work? Do they just let foreigners into their University? And does this get accepted in any western state? Also, good luck ever working for a defense company or anything sensitive after th…

There was a graduate statistics seminar program in Pyongyang for a bit.

https://community.amstat.org/sspa/communityblogs/blogviewer?...

http://www.the-psi.org/psi-in-the-news.html

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