> So they're quite out of date.

"More specifically, it is an electronic edition published on CD in the first decade of the 2000s"

So no telling when the data was actually gathered/acquired before being "frozen" for publication.

Also, if this is on something released to the NK public, then I'd imagine they are highly sanitized to make the rest of the world less impressive to those NK citizens that are allowed access to it. I'd strongly hope they provide their military better information, yet we know militaries are often lied to by their command.

You can examine their modern military maps; there's many of them (staged) in backgrounds of random KCNA photos. I.e. this "big board",

https://www.rferl.org/a/korea-evacuation-kim-/24951984.html

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/who-north-koreas-secretiv...

I don't know why one wouldn't expect their military to have modern cartography, in the internet era.