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North Korea is second worst for press freedom in latest CPJ survey
North Korea is the second most-censored nation on earth, according to a new ranking by the Committee to Protect Journalists. For anyone that knows North Korea or has been paying attention to press freedom studies and rankings, the news hardly comes as a surprise. The government has complete control over the news media, which is limited…
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North Korea launches online shopping site
North Korea has launched an e-commerce site on its nationwide intranet, KCNA said Wednesday. The site, which is accessible via PC and mobile telephone, is called ?? (Okryu) and includes consumer goods, medicine and food items. Users can search for goods they want to buy and also schedule delivery, said KCNA. Payments for the goods can be made with…
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CIA not talking on North Korean Internet outage
In late December, just a few days after the U.S. government accused North Korea of being behind the hack on Sony Pictures Entertainment, North Korea’s sole connection to the Internet was disrupted for nine and a half hours. At the time, there was speculation that the American government might be behind the action, especially as President…
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More Internet problems hit North Korea
North Korea’s Internet connection is experiencing problems again, leading to difficulties in connecting to North Korean websites from outside of the country, according to data from Dyn Research. Users inside North Korea are also presumably having trouble reaching sites in the rest of the world. The problems began just after 3am UTC and continued for…
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Internet-funded North Korean coup has short life
A bizarre attempt to raise $10 million to fund a coup in North Korea appears to have ended shortly after it began. A fund-raising campaign asking for money to “Help Bring Freedom to North Korea” was posted on Indiegogo on January 18, but several days later was deleted from the site.
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Obama says Internet could bring down Kim regime
Greater access to information, particularly the Internet, will likely prove to be what ends the rule of North Korea’s regime, President Obama said last week in an interview. Speaking to YouTube creators during an event at The White House, Obama said military options against the country were limited, in part because of the potential damage…
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NSA had access to North Korean computer network, says report
The U.S. National Security Agency had access to internal North Korean computer networks before the attack on Sony Pictures, according to a report by The New York Times. That access enabled the U.S. to conclude, with confidence, that North Korea was responsible for the hack on Sony. The report quotes interviews with former U.S. and foreign officials, computer experts briefed…
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Air Koryo’s Facebook page hacked
Hackers have hit a Facebook page for North Korean airline Air Koryo replacing it with messages in support of Islamic State militants and against North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. The page shot to fame earlier in the year when it began replying to user comments and questions about trips to North Korea. It claimed to be…
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Computer science in the DPRK
Will Scott, the American that spent a semester teaching computer science at the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology, spoke about his experiences this week at the Chaos Computer Club’s annual conference in Hamburg. Scott, who has just returned from the second trip to PUST, went into detail on the IT environment at the university,…
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North Korea’s Internet suffers more attacks
North Korea’s Internet connection with the world suffered outages on December 27 and December 28. The latest instability on the connection began around 0400 UTC (1 p.m. local time in Pyongyang) on Sunday and continued for a couple of hours, according to monitoring by Dyn Research. The U.S.-based organization recorded several instances in which connections…
