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North Korean animation outsourcing for Amazon, HBO Max series
A misconfigured North Korean Internet cloud server has provided a fascinating glance into the world of North Korean animation outsourcing…
The headquarters of the April 26 Animation Studio in Pyongyang, seen on Korean Central Television on November 27, 2020.Together with researchers from Mandiant, a computer security company owned by Google, access logs for the server were also examined. In fact, as the editing comments on all the files, including those related to US-based animations, were written in Chinese, it is likely that the contracting arrangement was several steps downstream from the major producers. However, the ability of the North Korean studio to apparently continue working on international projects highlights the difficulty in enforcing current US sanctions in such a global industry.
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