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5G at the Chinese border?
The Daily NK reported this week that said North Korea is planning to install a 5G wireless network along its northern border with China. The network will link security cameras and aid the authorities in their monitoring of the border. The information comes from an unnamed source in the country, who said that installation of…
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Smartcard login for distance education
The distance education system run by Kim Il Sung University was the subject of a short report on Korean Central Television on Tuesday evening and we got to see a little of it in action. Distance education has been pushed in North Korea since long before Covid and many major universities offer remote online learning…
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Researchers developed dynamic traffic control system
Researchers at Kangson University of Industrial Technology have developed a system to automate control of traffic lights based on traffic volume. Their work is another sign of increasing road traffic volume in North Korea and that the country’s once famously empty roads are becoming a thing of the past. A summary of the development was…
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Voice of Korea summer 2020 schedule
It’s been a while since I posted the shortwave schedule for Voice of Korea (조선의소리), North Korea’s international shortwave broadcasting station. The station continues to broadcast just as it always has, despite a steep drop in the number of people tuning into shortwave radio. You can hear daily broadcasts in English, French, Spanish, Arabic, German,…
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North Korean university links with foreign lecturers for live Internet seminars
Singapore-based Choson Exchange recently concluded a series of seminars with a university in Pyongyang that included two sessions conducted live over the Internet. The seminars are believed to be among the first to involve a live link between a North Korean university and lecturers outside of the country. Titled “Global Service Innovation,” the six-lecture course taught…
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New Life for the Third Network
When hundreds of houses and apartments were completed last year, North Korean media showed residents entering their new homes, welcomed with a pile of household goods. On the wall of each home was something else provided by the state: a dedicated receiver for the country’s secretive third radio network (조선중앙제3방송) that relays daily news, instruction,…
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Health tips for PC use on state TV
North Korean workplaces aren’t renowned for being particularly high-tech, but a new program on state television hints at increasing PC use and associated health problems. The program called “콤퓨터사용과 건강관리,” or “Computer Use and Health,” sets the scene by saying computer use is expanding but can bring unwanted health problems including eye strain, back and…
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North Korea’s foreign propaganda set to play a more important role
Among the plans and promises delivered during Kim Jong Un’s report to the just-concluded 8th Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) was a relatively minor reference that could spell big changes to the way North Korea tells its story overseas. “[The report] also referred to the need to frustrate the reactionary offensive of…
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Is North Korea finally getting 4G?
It’s been 12 years since Koryolink began cellular service in North Korea. As the world begins moving to 5G, North Korean customers are still stuck on 3G technology, but that might be about to change. At the just-concluded 8th Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea, Kim Jong Un told delegates that the telecommunications sector…
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North Korean stamps website appears
With only a couple of days left before the end of 2020, North Korea has launched its latest website on the global Internet. The Korea Stamp site is operated by the country’s national stamp issuer to sell North Korean stamps to collectors worldwide. The site incudes a catalog of several thousand stamps dating back to…
