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


I’ve been meaning to write this for a while but it turned into a much longer write up than I was expecting so it’s being broken into multiple parts. Martyn at 38 North did a great write…

Multiple locations on the map and checks notes, what appears to be Pyongyang’s finest Italian restaurant There’s additional methods for making sure that the system time wasn’t modified but apparently doesn’t work that great. nResultCode = 3: QR code data was processed the app could not validate or save the license properly keeping it in demo mode.

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