You'll notice Red Star 3 looks a lot like Mac OS X. Older versions look a lot like Windows XP.

Instructions on how to access the web when in Korea

When a former Google employee named Will Scott had the opportunity to visit the Faculty of Science and Technology, Pyongyang University of Science and Technology, he also bought a copy of the operating system "Red Star 3" Korea before returning to America.

Very little information is published about Red Star 3.

Korea used to use Windows, but since the country has also created Red Star 3, which has a design similar to Apple's Mac OS X operating system.

This is the boot screen when you first start Red Star 3.

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When installing Red Star 3, you will be prompted to select a city for your computer's time zone. Interestingly, there is no choice for Seoul, Korea.

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This is the login screen.

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You are logged in! You'll notice Red Star 3 looks a lot like Mac OS X. Older versions look a lot like Windows XP. Since North Korean President Kim Jong Un is said to be using an iMac at his desk in 2013, some believe he wants Red Star to look like a Mac's browser.

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This is the word processor to create documents.

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Here is the email application.

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To access your saved documents, you use the Red Star file manager, which looks very similar to Apple's Finder management system.

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The Red Star operating system web browser is called "Naaraara" , and it is a rather heavy variant version of Mozilla Firefox.

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This is how you personalize the Red Star and we also have access to the included wallpapers.

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This wallpaper is titled 다 박솔 초소 의 설경 or "Snow in the outpost".

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The name of this wallpaper is translated as "Night Scene on Zhuangzi Fire River".

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Another wallpaper of flower fields.

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Beautiful wallpaper of Azalea shrubs blooming.

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"On the horizon" shows a picturesque view of agricultural activities of North Korea.

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This beautiful wallpaper is called "The echo of the waterfall".

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범안 리의 선경 or "Beomanli's suburb".

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This is the "Mt Paekdu Dawn" Paekdu is an active volcano bordering North Korea and China.

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