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Three things to read from December 2025
This month, North Korean middle school students are learning languages from digital media players, a new method for distributing e-learning material and the evolving methods used by North Korean IT workers. This column is now available as part of the new NK TechLab monthly newsletter on Substack. Subscribe for free (you don’t need a Substack…
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Three things to read, from September 2025
Each month, NK TechLab will publish a review of three interesting or important articles from the month that provide a window into the use of technology in North Korea. This month, surveillance at a LAN café in Pyongyang, more radio broadcasts to North Korea are halted, and North Korean IT workers look beyond the tech…
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What We Learned Inside a North Korean Internet Server: How Well Do You Know Your Partners?
A misconfigured North Korean Internet cloud server has provided a fascinating glance into the world of North Korean animation outsourcing and how foreign companies might be inadvertently employing North Korean companies on information technology (IT) projects. The incident also underlines how difficult it is for foreign companies to verify their outsourced work is not potentially…
