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North Korea Opens Official Website

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the designed-by-razorfish-i-think dept.

wumpus188 writes "This is what I believe is the first official North Korean internet site 'Naenara' ('My Country'). Free reg required (login 'slashdot', password 'password' for you lazy slackers :) I esp. enjoyed the 'Favorite Korean Movies' section."

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  1. Well well! by timealterer · · Score: 5, Funny

    I look forward to open, unbiased communication free of propoganda or heresay.

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    1. Re:Well well! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
      I look forward to open, unbiased communication free of propoganda or heresay.

      Are you talking about the North Korean site or Slashdot?

    2. Re:Well well! by stimpleton · · Score: 4, Funny



      Unlike the whitehouse??

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    3. Re:Well well! by pjt33 · · Score: 4, Funny

      And maybe written by people who know how to spell propaganda and hearsay.

    4. Re:Well well! by Zorilla · · Score: 2, Funny

      All North Korea needs now is their own version of whitehouse.com

      (Military joke, not a troll)

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  2. go get 'em boys by Killshot · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oooh.. let's see just how much bandwidth the north koreans have.

    1. Re:go get 'em boys by LostCluster · · Score: 4, Funny

      Apparently not much...

      I thought Nukes were something they weren't allowed to have. Who gave them PHP-Nuke?

    2. Re:go get 'em boys by KrisHolland · · Score: 4, Funny

      " Oooh.. let's see just how much bandwidth the north koreans have."

      Watchout about wasting N. Korea's bandwidth, they've threatened nuclear war for less...

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    3. Re:go get 'em boys by igrp · · Score: 3, Funny
      Cool, we just slashdotted an entire country.

      I'm so proud of my fellow /.'ers. ;)

  3. Someone nukes N. Korea.... by mediaSage · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... With PHP!?!?!?

    1. Re:Someone nukes N. Korea.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      I also note that the communists have stolen patented western MP3 technology, probably with the assistance of pinko symp GNU/Linux hippies.

  4. One Country by Scarblac · · Score: 4, Funny

    Click "One Country":

    Object not found!
    The requested URL was not found on this server. The link on the referring page seems to be wrong or outdated. Please inform the author of that page about the error.
    Error 404
    ...

    Kinda figures.

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  5. In the words of Stewie... by the_skywise · · Score: 3, Funny

    BLAST!

  6. Re:Free Gmail invitation here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    All the cool nerds already have North Korean webmail.

  7. In related news... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... the first North Korean internet site has been slashdotted.

  8. do they have a blog? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Jul 17 2004 05:11:34 | posted by KJI | category: missles | comments: 0

    Wanted to let you know that we've got a shitload of big new missles. I hope everybody shows up to watch the army goose-step in front of them. Show up, it'll be a blast. And if you don't you'll be shot.

    Jul 16 2004 19:23:44 | posted by KJI | category: food | comments: 3245243

    Ugh I totally can't figure out this computer. Anyway just enjoying some kimchi wanted to let you know that. I hope everybody is having a good dinner tonight.

    Update: yow, didn't mean to touch a nerve there... go out and hunt for grubs or something, can't help yah.

    Jul 12 2004 09:30:01 | posted by KJI | category: admin | comments: 1

    Hey yall SUP! just got my blog up and running. I'm gonna post some of favorite american movies here in a sec. I hope someday we can have movie theatres here, eh? HOt buttered popcorn for me!

  9. Re:If only... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    And give them internet access so they could read the site.

  10. Re:Don by NanoGator · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Someone already changed the password."

    Some anonymous nerd out there late on a Friday night is sitting there saying "Ha ha!"

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  11. DPRK EMAIL? by PKC+Jess · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hey! Who took kimjongil@kcckp.net? What? AND kim_jong_il? :( Mind sharing the wealth? wait a minute... *later on* "Dear Dear Leader, So, Kim, how is every little thing? ~Jess"

  12. uhm... by DraconPern · · Score: 4, Funny

    With this slashdotting, I wouldn't be surpried their next front page news is 'World attacks North Korea's computer infrastructure'..

  13. Not the First Official Site by thelizman · · Score: 5, Funny

    Kim Jong Il has a weblog.

  14. Re:Has anyone else registered? by nkh · · Score: 4, Funny

    This webmail address is good for us: the NSA won't be able to read our e-mails anymore if it's located in North Korea!

  15. I'm moving there by LNX+Flocki · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's it, I'm moving to North Korea. Look what their constitution says:

    Article 71

    Citizens have the right to relaxation. This right is ensured by the establishment of the working hours, the provision of holidays, paid leave, accommodation at health resorts and holiday homes at State expense and by a growing network of cultural facilities.

  16. Don't slashdot rogue nation-states! :) by FooAtWFU · · Score: 4, Funny

    Don't slashdot North Korea! They've probably never been slashdotted, don't know what to expect. What if they think it's cyberterrorism and launch some of their missles?!? I hear some of those suckers are nuclear (or might be before long)! You guys want to start World War III or something?

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  17. Re:If only... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    That shouldn't be a problem, after all, didn't the "great leader" Kim Il Jung "invent" the hamburger?

  18. Re:Great by flossie · · Score: 3, Funny
    Is it really smart to send thousands of exploit riddled IE lusers to a website ran by a government that is known to actively conduct computer espionage?

    Do you mean sites like this or this?

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  19. Ohh Shit! by Nick+Fury · · Score: 1, Funny

    You slashdoted the N. Korea site. Do you have any idea how bad that could be? Jebus Cricket people, you can't just go around launching weapons of mass destruction at websites you don't like... Gah....

  20. Next day in North Korean newspapers.. by varjag · · Score: 2, Funny

    As the new superior North Korean site was opened, hundreds of thousands of oppressed proletariat people of capitalistic world rushed for the only truthful information source available to them. Witness what those who immersed into refreshing spring of Juche ideas write:

    "They took my job to South Korea. Screw them!"
    --Peter Geek, 31

    "They don't even show Boy General here!"
    --Johny Underage, 13

    "Beautiful haircuts of North Korean women! I feel young again!"
    -- Al. D. Fart, 73 (ed. note: we believe this is a typo - people don't live that long)

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  21. Hearsay? by sczimme · · Score: 5, Funny


    I propose a new word: heresay. It would be a portmanteau of 'heresy' and 'hearsay'.

    'Heresay' would be the practice of spreading false claims and attacking the local religious establishment based on secondhand information.

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  22. Glad I'm not their sysop... by Phil+John · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...imagine what would happen if there was any downtime...I shudder to think.

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  23. /.ed by dirvish · · Score: 2, Funny

    This has to be a first. Slashdotted a country!

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  24. Re:Has anyone else registered? by jhunsake · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oh yeah, well I'm hostmaster@kcckp.net. Bow down before I change your dns entry!

  25. Re:password already changed? by PetoskeyGuy · · Score: 2, Funny

    A moron with at least one extra mod point it seems. :P