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  • US State Dept. puts out call for North Korea projects

    US State Dept. puts out call for North Korea projects

    The U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL) put out a call Tuesday for projects aimed at human rights and democracy in North Korea. DRL will fund winning proposals with grants of up to $350,000 per organization and groups have until May 13, 2014, to complete and submit their proposals. Proposals can cover…

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  • Open Radio for North Korea goes off the air

    Open Radio for North Korea goes off the air

    Open Radio for North Korea, one of the handful of private radio stations that targets North Korea, has reportedly ended broadcasts to the country. The Seoul-based station is understood to have suspended shortwave broadcasting at the end of March after a grant from the U.S. government used to pay for the transmissions apparently ended. In…

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  • Voice of Korea mid-2014 schedule

    Voice of Korea mid-2014 schedule

    North Korea’s external shortwave radio broadcaster, Voice of Korea, joins many of the world’s international broadcasters in switching to a summer frequency schedule on Sunday, March 30. Shortwave broadcasts change frequencies numerous times during the day to take advantage of atmospheric conditions that help their broadcasts can reach the intended targets. For this reason, it’s…

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  • DPRK organizations called out for censorship

    DPRK organizations called out for censorship

    Three of North Korea’s state security and censorship organizations have been called out by Reporters Without Borders in the organization’s latest ranking of “Enemies of the Internet.” The report was published on Wednesday, which RSF and Amnesty International have named world day against cyber censorship. The three organizations named by RSF are the Central Scientific and…

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  • Inside North Korea’s cell phone use

    North Koreans used cell phone messaging to independently organize a soccer group, surprising authorities, according to a new report on cell phone usage in the country. The soccer club was apparently organized by a group at Kim Chaek University of Technology in Pyongyang, and could be one of the reasons that pushed authorities to launch a…

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  • DPRK military could turn to cyber-warfare for lower costs

    DPRK military could turn to cyber-warfare for lower costs

    North Korea’s military could turn to cyber-based attacks and weapons as a more cost-effective alternative to conventional weapons, the U.S. Department of Defense says in a new report. But the annual report to Congress on “Military and Security Developments Involving the DPRK” is also a lot more cautious in blaming North Korea for a series of…

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  • Red Star 3.0 desktop images posted

    Red Star 3.0 desktop images posted

    If you want to give your computer desktop a touch of North Korea’s Red Star Linux without installing the operating system, now you can. Will Scott, the computer scientist who brought back a copy of the new operating system last year, has posted the desktop background images from Red Star 3.0 to a Google+ album.…

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  • Lost phone found in Pyongyang?

    Lost phone found in Pyongyang?

    A smartphone that was lost in South Korea has apparently surfaced in Pyongyang. A South Korean Internet used posted a screenshot from Google’s Android Device Manager that shows the phone on Sungri Street (????) in Pyongyang. The page says the location accuracy is 75 meters. Curtis Melvin, author of North Korea Economy Watch and authority…

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  • A new look at North Korea

    A new look at North Korea

    Most people who read this blog will be familiar with the image of the two Koreas at nighttime by a NASA satellite On January 30, 2014, an astronaut on the International Space Station used a Nikon D3S camera to capture a new image of the Korean peninsula at 10:16 pm — one that’s even more…

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  • Sochi Olympics coverage on KCTV

    Sochi Olympics coverage on KCTV

    Every time the Olympics or World Cup come around, there’s the question of whether viewers in the DPRK will be able to see the major sporting events. Korean Central Television (조선중앙텔레비죤) often manages to air portions of the events, but only with technical assistance from other organizations. And so this year, for the Winter Olympics…

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