Isn't this a violation of copyright? Assuming edia is protected by international law even when you don't particularly like the nation that produced said content.
(this is my answer to every one of my actions that may be construed as copyright infringement)
For example, a global company needs to report on how many Northern Irish employees are Catholic or Protestant to sell crap to New York City. Nobody wants to deal with crap like that, so the reseller sucks it up.
They're also a democracy (Democratic People's Republic of Korea).
That having been said, I don't know the copyright status of these ripped resources WRT how the DPRK treats them (what's the copyright on the OS itself)?
Sending a representative of the regime to a court in the US to pursue copyright is by itself an earth-shattering precedent, and if it happens the rep will probably be laughed out of that courtroom right into a jail cell if they don't try to defect. The point is, feed your citizens before trying to be taken seriously.
The US does not jail representatives of enemy nations as a matter of course. There is a North Korean representative in New York (to the UN) and they are not being arrested and thrown in jail. As long as they follow the local laws, I expect that any other representative (like a hypothetical one that wants to sue for alleged copyright infringement) would be similarly protected by the law.
(For example, the US diplomat's wife who was driving negligently and killed a British person last year.)
It’s easy to see the cruelties of other regimes but a bit harder to distinguish the propaganda coming from within one’s own regime.[1]
The issue of copyright in traditionally Communist countries is interesting, as they don't generally recognize it. North Korea had no copyright at all until they passed a (probably purely for show) law meeting the minimum requirements of the Berne Convention in 2001 so they could enter some global treaties and trade arrangements.
Internally, there appears to really be no such concept in North Korean society.