Selfies and surveillance: North Korea's new connectivity
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November 10, 2017
PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — Ever so cautiously, North Korea is going online.
Doctors can consult via live, online video conferencing, and lectures at prestigious Kim Il Sung University are streamed to faraway factories and agricultural communes. People use online dictionaries and text each other on their smart phones. In the wallets of the privileged are "Jonsong" or "Narae" cards for e-shopping and online banking. Cash registers at major department stores are plugged into the web.
It's just not the World Wide Web. This is all done on a tightly sealed intranet of the sort a medium-sized comp...
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