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  • North Korea could use power lines for intranet expansion

    North Korea could use power lines for intranet expansion

    North Korean state media says that the country has developed its own power line communication system. The technology, which is widespread around the world, enables data transmission over electricity lines and could be used to expand the national intranet to points beyond the telephone network. The system was developed by the Seosung IT Exchange Center…

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  • US cryptocurrency expert arrested for violating North Korean sanctions

    US cryptocurrency expert arrested for violating North Korean sanctions

    Virgil Griffith, a U.S. cryptocurrency expert, was arrested in Los Angeles on Thursday accused of violating U.S. sanctions against North Korea for this attendance at a cryptocurrency conference in Pyongyang in April this year. Griffith, who is due to appear in federal court later on Friday, is charged with conspiracy to violate the International Emergency…

  • Rakwon Trading launches an Android TV in North Korea

    Rakwon Trading launches an Android TV in North Korea

    Rakwon Trading Co. is selling a smart TV equipped with the Android operating system, the state-run Sogwang website reported on Wednesday. The TV can be hooked up to the national intranet for web access and connects to the Manbang video on demand service, the report said. The main selling feature of the TV is dual…

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  • Science and Technology Education in North Korea Enters the 21st Century

    Science and Technology Education in North Korea Enters the 21st Century

    North Korea is moving ahead with a comprehensive reform of its education system that puts science and technology at its center. Plans were approved at a cabinet meeting over the weekend and follow a call by Kim Jong Un in September to improve the level of the nation’s education. At the weekend meeting, education officials…

  • ‘North Korean’ robot mop debuts, but it looks familiar

    ‘North Korean’ robot mop debuts, but it looks familiar

    North Korea’s Arirang Meari website introduced on Thursday a robot mop that it says was developed by a domestic company, but it bears a remarkable resemblance to a model by U.S.-based iRobot. Most North Korean consumer electronics isn’t developed or manufactured in the country but bought from Chinese contract electronics manufacturers. A North Korean brand…

  • Robot expo opens in Pyongyang

    Robot expo opens in Pyongyang

    The “National Exhibition of Sci-Tech Achievements in the Field of Robot” (전국로보트부문 과학기술성과전시회) opened at the Sci-Tech Center in Pyongyang on Tuesday, according to state media. The event appears to be a new one, having no mention previously under this name, but is the latest in a string of exhibitions of sci-tech achievements. Some have…

  • South Korea adjusts some radio frequencies to escape jamming

    South Korea adjusts some radio frequencies to escape jamming

    Two radio stations operated by South Korea’s National Intelligence Service have slightly moved some of their broadcast frequencies to escape North Korean jamming. The stations, Voice of the People and Echo of Hope, are on the air daily broadcasting a constant stream of news and information to an audience in North Korea. For years the…

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  • A new smartphone from an unknown company

    A new smartphone from an unknown company

    North Korea’s latest smartphone is the Kimtongmu (길동무), state-run Arirang Meari reported on Monday. The name can be translated to “companion,” which almost perfectly describes the relationship between almost any person and their smartphone these days. Few details about the device were included in the report although it did carry a photo of the phone.…

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  • Moranbong motion-based video games system

    Moranbong motion-based video games system

    North Korea appears to have developed its own version of the Nintendo Wii. The Moranbong games console comes with a couple of motion-sensitive controllers and a sensor bar that includes a camera. It was briefly detailed by the state-run Arirang Meari website on Monday with a few small images of the device. Through the console,…

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  • Hundreds of North Korea IT workers abroad earning money for missile, nuclear program, says UN report

    Hundreds of North Korea IT workers abroad earning money for missile, nuclear program, says UN report

    North Korea is raising money for its missile and nuclear programs by conducting cybercrime and syphoning the wages of North Korean computer engineers doing legitimate work overseas, according to a new report by the United Nations Panel of Experts on the DPRK. Details of the report, which was published on Thursday, were leaked in advance…

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