North Korea's got a new tablet on Lost Password ‹ Watch Erotic Adult Movies 18+ Online Free — WordPressthe market. And it's not shied away from calling it an iPad.
The "Ryonghung IPad" was featured in the latest edition of the country's Foreign Trade magazine.
SEE ALSO: Americans have no idea where North Korea is but are pretty sure it's in AustraliaIn it, the product is claimed to have a quadcore 1.2 Ghz CPU, 1GB of RAM, an 8GB hard disk, an HDMI cable connection and a keyboard, according to NK News. It's manufactured by Myohyang IT Company.
Original image has been replaced. Credit: Mashable "The iPad has been...highly appreciated at the third national sci-tech festival and the national intellectual property products show in 2016," the ad says.
The tablet includes a North Korean version of WebMD, that the maker says can "diagnose up to 1,200 ailments", together with other apps, including a dictionary.
It's not the first tablet that North Korea has sold -- the reclusive state had three domestically-produced tablets in 2013 -- but the Ryonghung IPad is the first time the country has ripped off an Apple trademarks.
Current leader Kim Jong-un apparently loves Apple, as did his dad. Kim Jong-Il reportedly used a 15-inch Macbook Pro, while his son was pictured next to an iMac in a 2013 photo that was circulated:
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The Kims' love for Apple seems to have influenced its domestic tech industry, with a company releasing a computer in 2015 that looked really similar to an Apple iMac:
Original image has been replaced. Credit: Mashable At the same time, the country reportedly released its own in-house knock-off of Apple's Mac OS X, called Red Star 3.0:
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Nobody knows what OS the Ryonghung IPad will run on, but if past tablets are any indication, it'll likely be a heavily-neutered form of Android.
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Apple -- if it takes the effort -- might be able to defend its trademark in the reclusive totalitarian state. After all, North Korea has been a member of the Madrid Protocol since 1996, an international agreement which regulates the use of trademarks.
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