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Google Maps adds data on North Korea
Google’s on a bit of a North Korean kick at the moment. Just weeks after its chairman, Eric Schmidt, made a high-profile visit to Pyongyang, the company has added additional detail about the county to Google Maps. Roads, subway stations, parks and some major monuments and buildings are on the new map, which became available…
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Eric Schmidt on his North Korean visit
Google Chairman Eric Schmidt has posted some thoughts on his recent trip to Pyongyang. The comments appeared on his Google Plus page on Saturday, the same day his daughter also posted her impressions of the trip. The executive’s comments won’t provide any big revelations, at least they shouldn’t to readers of this blog. He generally…
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DPRK officials indicated Internet is inevitable, says Sophie Schmidt
Sophie Schmidt, the daughter of Google Chairman Eric Schmidt, has written a comprehensive blog post about her recent trip to Pyongyang and included in her revelations: North Korean officials seemed to acknowledge they can’t keep the Internet out. The posting is perhaps the most complete account yet of the visit by any member of the group,…
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KCNA’s new site gets Juche date
Just over a week since the Korean Central News Agency completed a major overhaul of its website, several elements of the new site have been changed. The changes address a couple of things that surprised me when I first reviewed the site on January 5. The first is the addition of a Juche date. The…
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KCNA updates its web site
KCNA, North Korea’s state-run news agency, has relaunched its web site. The site, which is one of only a handful hosted in Pyongyang, was first launched in late 2010 and has been redesigned a couple of times since it first went online. The new design, which appears to have debuted on January 4, is perhaps…
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Retweeting DPRK lands activist with suspended sentance
Park Jung-geun, a Seoul-based photographer and free-speech activist, has received a 10-month suspended prison sentence for retweeting North Korean tweets. The case, one of several that has drawn international attention to South Korean Internet censorship, has been going on for the better part of a year and was being closely watched for its interpretation of how South Korea’s…
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Diving into AirKoryo’s new website
It’s been a couple of weeks since Air Koryo’s new web site make headlines. Much has been written about the site, but not much of substance. A lot of the stories have noted the airline’s one-star rating on Skytrax, a web site which generates ranking from user reviews, although it should be noted there are…
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New! The North Korean YouTube List
On the right of the home page you’ll find a link to a new resource on North Korea Tech: a listing YouTube channels associated with North Korea. The first North Korea-related channel came online in 2006 and more have followed. In the last couple of years the posting of videos by Uriminzokkiri, the Pyongyang-linked site…
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Voice of Korea gets an e-mail address
Voice of Korea, the DPRK’s international shortwave radio service, has started telling its listeners it has an email address. The radio station opened a web site more than a year ago but never advertised an email address and continued to ask listeners to send messages via postal mail. Now it says it is accepting emails…
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One IP address for all of PUST
One of the revelations from a recent interview conducted by Reuters with Park Chan-mo, co-founder of the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (PUST), is that the entire university connects to the Internet through a single IP address. IP (Internet Protocol) addresses are the numeric addresses that computers use to route data traffic on the…
