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North Korea launches another new website, this time for international trade
North Korea is on something of a website roll at present. The online Manmulsang e-commerce portal launched a few weeks ago, last week it opened DPRK Portal and this week it’s a foreign trade portal. The site says its run by the Ministry of External Economic Relations and has launched in Korean, English, Chinese and…
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North Korea launches an Internet portal
North Korea has launched a new Internet portal that provides a quick link to all of the country’s official web sites available on the Internet. The site, appropriately called DPRK Portal, links to 34 web sites although a handful are actually sections of the Naenara web site so the total number of sites with unique…
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Manmulsang website appears on the Internet
North Korea’s Yonphung Business Information Technology Centre has launched an Internet edition of its “Manmulsang” online shopping portal. A site aimed at users of the domestic intranet was launched in 2015 but the Internet site has only recently become available. Both sites use the same logo. The site introduces food stuffs and products with claimed…
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Orascom gets UN exemption to operate North Korean cellular network
Egypt’s Orascom Investment Holding has received an exemption from the United Nations to continue operating Koryolink, its North Korean cellular network, it said Monday. The ability of Orascom to continue as a partner in the network has been in doubt since U.N. Security Council sanctions last year banned foreign companies from establishing or running commercial…
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Kim Chaek University of Technology launches Internet web site
One of North Korea’s top universities, Kim Chaek University of Technology (김책공업종합대학), has launched a site on the global Internet. The new web site, at www.kut.edu.kp, appears to have debuted to coincide with the 70th anniversary of the university this year and an international conference to mark the event in September. It’s the second state-run North…
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North Korea and the Internet: Building for the Future
This story first appeared on 38 North. Construction of the new Internet Communication Bureau headquarters (평양인터네트통신국건설) in Pyongyang appears to be near externally complete, more than two years after it first broke ground. The purpose of the agency is unclear, although it appears to be focused on the global Internet and not North Korea’s national…
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North Korea’s newest smartphone might be made in China
Update: The Chinese electronics company identified in this report has subsequently confirmed they are producing this on behalf of Phurunhanul Electronics. North Korea’s Phurunhanul Electronics (푸른하늘), one of the country’s leading consumer electronics brand, has launched a new smartphone, the Phurunhanul H1. The phone was apparently developed by the company after examining existing phones on the domestic…
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NGOs suggest mutual broadcasting of North, South TV
Prominent non-governmental organizations have sent South Korean President Moon Jae-in a joint letter ahead of his upcoming summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un containing proposals for issues that should be addressed. Most cover human rights, humanitarian aid and inter-Korean relations but one in particular caught my eye: Agree on mutual free and uncensored…
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Mischief with Our Nation website
A typo in a North Korean website has allowed an Internet user to serve up anti-regime messages. The mistake is made on Our Nation School, a China-based website that teaches juche philosophy and appears to be run by the same group behind the Uriminzokkiri site. In the top corner of the site are a series…
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Arirang 171 smartphone unveiled
North Korea’s latest smartphone is the Arirang 171 (아리랑171), the latest in a line of phones to carry the Arirang name and the most powerful to date. Technical details of the phone were revealed in a video posted by DPRK Today, a North Korean-linked website, but the one thing I really want to know wasn’t…
