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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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Pyongyang gets social
Uriminzokkiri.com, the closest thing North Korea has to an official home page, got social in July when it joined Twitter and Facebook. The move generated lots of publicity and helped drive Internet users to follow its tweets and status-updates, but also drew the attention of the governments in Seoul and Washington. Uriminzokkiri’s moves into social…
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North Korea moves quietly to the Internet
North Korea, one of the world’s few remaining information black holes, has taken the first step toward a fully fledged connection to the Internet.
