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North Korean Media: KCTV’s Coverage of Kim Jong Un’s Diplomatic Push in 2018
North Korea’s state broadcaster, Korean Central Television (KCTV), has had to tread a fine line covering this year’s international summits and diplomatic events. On the one hand, the numerous summits have been something to hail, having put Kim Jong Un concretely on the global stage, broken the country’s international diplomatic isolation and potentially laid the…
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North Korea’s WiFi story: the “Mirae” is today
Korean Central Television recently broadcast footage of people using a tablet PC to access the national intranet via an outdoor data service in Pyongyang.
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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 Korean TV picks up World Cup from Round of 16
North Korean TV viewers are getting delayed coverage of the FIFA World Cup although one team has pointedly been excluded from the coverage. For days after the World Cup began on June 14, North Korean TV was silent about the contest but that changed on July 1 when it televised Argentina vs France. The game…
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How North Korean TV covered the summit – Thursday
As expected, Korea Central Television broadcast a documentary on Thursday about Kim Jong Un’s trip to Singapore and his meeting with Donald Trump. The documentary was about 45 minutes long and gave most of North Korea its first look on video at Donald Trump. As with all state TV coverage, the documentary wasn’t focused on…