Despite the significant strides that North Korea has made in recent years in updating the state of its domestic technological infrastructure, the “innovations” that the country has produced in order to achieve this have rarely made waves for their originality.
From direct copycat products to loose imitations, to the now blatant use of internationally famous trademarked names like the “iPad,” the North Korean tech world is filled with examples of knockoffs of foreign made products.
Despite the significant strides that North Korea has made in recent years in updating the state of its domestic technological infrastructure, the “innovations” that the country has produced in order to achieve this have rarely made waves for their originality.
From direct copycat products to loose imitations, to the now blatant use of internationally famous trademarked names like the “iPad,” the North Korean tech world is filled with examples of knockoffs of foreign made products.
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