It is odd, yes. Consider that the NK government really is as successful at restricting foreign information and culture as the western media would have you believe. Swapping them out for Toyota badges makes some sort sense if no one in NK actually knows what a Toyota is, or the company for that matter. The logo just becomes some odd thing that they don’t really think about or question as it doesn’t matter, whereas Chinese or Russian brands would be recognizable and confirmation that NK can’t produce its own goods. Sort of a backwards line of thinking at first blow, but it makes sense looking at the history of Soviet Union.

Or, it’s simpler than any of that. It’s a Hyundai design manufactured under license by Toyota and then sold somehow to the NK government or a shell company. Companies license designs to other companies all the time, often the manufacturing company puts their own logo on it. The Soviets bought licenses to produce a lot of the things they lacked the infrastructure and technologies to manufacture at scale. The Lada sedans produced by the Russians from the 70’s to whenever they stopped was originally a Fiat design, for example. Most every watch movement for wrist watches were licensed through Swiss companies like Unitas of Venus when Rd Army soldiers, seeing western allies all owning wrist watches, wanted watches after the war.