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Online Lecture Begins
Pyongyang, October 12 (KCNA) — The Grand People’s Study House in Pyongyang has begun an online-lecture service. Full Story: KCNA
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The new face of KCNA
North Korea appears to have made its first full connection to the Internet and the first site online? A new home for KCNA. The site appeared as part of a routine scan I’ve been doing of Internet addresses issued to Star, the Thai-North Korean joint venture that I wrote about in a Computerworld story [North…
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The Internet unshackled … for now
[Updated: North Korea opens up Internet for national anniversary, Computerworld] There are amazing reports coming out of Pyongyang tonight on Twitter! That’s right, tweets from the heart of one of the most insular countries in the world. Foreign correspondents have been sending out tweets thanks to a press room set up at the Koryo Hotel.…
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High-tech revolution yet to hit North Korea
PYONGYANG (AFP) – Stressed out by email overload and non-stop mobile calls? You might consider a vacation in North Korea, where your cell phone is seized at the airport and Internet is unavailable. Full story: AFP News
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Northeast Asia Telecommunications Directors’ Meeting
Pyongyang, September 24 (KCNA) — The 27th meeting of the North-East Asia Telephone and Telecommunications Co., Ltd. Directors’ Board took place in Pyongyang on Friday. Full Story: KCNA
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DPRK concerned about US electronic warfare capability
The Voice of America has got its hands on a military manual said to have been smuggled from North Korea. The manual, which was apparently published in 2005, reveals Pyongyang’s concern about electronic warfare technology used by the United States and South Korea, reports VOA. The document also indicates North Korea’s military uses radar-absorbing paint…
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Phyongchon College of Technology
Pyongyang, September 14 (KCNA) — In the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, large factories and enterprises and major industrial zones have their own study-while-working networks. Phyongchon College of Technology, situated in Pyongyang, is one of them. Full story: KCNA
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Kim Jong Il Inspects Manpho Unhwa Factory
Pyongyang, September 12 (KCNA) — General Secretary Kim Jong Il provided field guidance to the Manpho Unhwa Factory alive with the dynamic drive for pushing back the frontiers of latest science and technology. Full Story: KCNA
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North Korea’s Cyber-warfare Capability
38 North, the Web site of the US Korea Institute at SAIS has a piece on North Korea’s cyber warfare capabilities. The article provides some of the background to claims that North Korea has been training computer programmers and hackers in the black arts of cyber warfare. It also looks at some of the obstacles…
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Nosotek’s News Corp. link
Bloomberg has a well-researched piece on Nosotek, the North Korean computer programming joint-venture that’s been busy developing mobile games. I spoke to the company back in June when I was writing “The world’s most unusual outsourcing destination” and at the time found a single Nosotek game: Bobby’s Blocks. Bloomberg managed to find several other titles,…