North Korea and the Internet
Posted by ampontan on Wednesday, August 13, 2008
The Chosun Ilbo of South Korea is reporting that North Korea plans to launch Internet service in 2009:
Kim Sang-myung, the chief of the North Korea Intellectuals Solidarity, a group of former North Korean professionals, at a symposium in the National Assembly on Wednesday said, “According to the Internet Access Roadmap it launched in 2002, North Korea will begin providing Internet service for special agencies and authorized individuals as early as next year.”
The Chosun placed this article in their “Something Completely Different” category.
That pretty much says it all, doesn’t it?
Tornadoes28 said
Of course the Great Leader has had access to internet Porn for many years.
Ken said
Ordinary citizens of North Korea would not need internet.
90% of citizens in Wonsan, which is the home port of liner to Japan, have Japanese radio and are listening to ‘Shiokaze’, broadcasting for abductees, and ohter western broadcastings.
So most of them know economic sanction is to some extent reasonable owing to North Korean abduction issue, missailes, etc.
http://sankei.jp.msn.com/world/korea/080803/kor0808030131002-n1.htm
bender said
およそ９０％の市民がしおかぜなどの西側放送を聴き、国内外の情報を得ている
Kind of off-topic, but at least from what I get from the “western” media, Japan doesn’t count as one. I wonder how many Japanese realize this?
mac said
And elsewhere … the South Korea media reported that South Korea had actually invented the internet first only for Japanese Imperialists to finance American forces under the guise of ICANN to aggressively invade and occupy it thereby denying Koreas their natural birthrights to a percentage financial income from it and dastardly re-wrote history books for children suggesting dishonestly that Kim Berners-Lee 김 버니 이 was actually some British man.
Angry scenes arose outside of Network Solutions offices where Korean protestors cut the RJ-45 connectors off the end of their patch cables and smashed their Sony computers to death with hammers before throwing them over the wall of the Japanese Embassy whilst children sang, “The Webdo is our land”.
Oh … sorry … got a little carried away there … been reading Ampontan for too long.
What can I say? What are the terms and conditions going to be? Every PC with its own personal security officer attached as a living firewall?