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More Tokyo raids over DPRK PC exports
Police in Tokyo conducted follow-up raids this week on the office of a North Korean-linked science association as part of an investigation into illegal PC exports. The Korean Association of Science and Technology in Japan (????????????, ????????????) was raided on Tuesday, according to local media reports. Police were investigating a possible link between the group and Lee Soon…
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Japan indicts two over PC exports to North Korea
Japanese prosecutors have indicted two people over alleged exports of personal computers to North Korea, Kyodo news agency reported Wednesday. The two are accused of exporting 8.2 million yen (US$108,000) worth of computers from Japan in violation of the Japanese government’s trade sanctions. Japan has imposed a complete ban on exports to North Korea since…
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North Korean laptop PCs
The North Korean state TV evening news recently provided a glimpse at one slice of the country’s PC manufacturing industry. (Update: A similar PC has been spotted in the U.S. Read below) The report took viewers to the factory and introduced the three computers being made, two of which are laptops and one of which…
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KP domain switch came after KCC Europe disappeared
North Korea’s dot-kp top-level Internet domain was reassigned after the company running it, KCC Europe, ended service and went months without replying to queries from Pyongyang, according to a report released this week. The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, which oversees country-level domains and the IP address system, switched control of dot-kp from the Korea Computer…
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KP domains could be back online soon
North Korea’s dot-kp domain space could be back on the Internet soon. Domain name servers responsible for dot-kp have been offline for several months as have a handful of websites that used them. With no servers the entire dot-kp address space, which only amounted to a handful of sites, has been out of operation. On…
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North Korea gets a new PDA
North Korean shops have begun selling a new PDA (personal digital assistant), according to the blog of a Russian studying in the country. The Pyongyang Show and Tell blog, which also introduced us to Red Flag Linux, has some pictures of the PDA and a few technical specs. It appears to be very much in…
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Naenara is back
North Korea’s Naenara website is back. The site went offline around early September when the dot-kp domain name space went down. Naenara is run by Pyongyang’s Korea Computer Center and offers news, photos, shopping, tourism information and MP3 files from North Korea. It’s running inside North Korea’s recently-activated domestic IP address space, but isn’t working…
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New Software Developed
Pyongyang, June 10 (KCNA) — The Samjiyon Information Center under the Korean Computer Centre has of late made new programs. Full story: KCNA
