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North Korea Opens Official Website
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."
Someone already changed the password.
KCNA, the NK "news" agensy has had a website for years in Japan. It is under the JP TLD, and the new one is under the NET TLD.
KCNA functions as the spokesperson for the DPKR, the state of North Korea. Probably the least independent news agency in the world, Fox News included.
It's a funny thing : BugMeNot (still haven't installed this Firefox extension ?) already works with this website...
War doesn't prove who's right, just who's left.
In 1999 a german Doctor gained the confidence of the regime. Getting behind the 70ies-kitschy facade, he came back to report on the oppression and poverty.
Google will find you lots of interviews about his experiences.
Any sufficiently advanced libertarian utopia is indistinguishable from government.
Or, perhaps it is because the server is located in Germany, and run by a German company
For a nice little tour of N. Korea, you might visit the report at hrnk.org
A national policy of starvation, overwork, and torture. Newborns murdered on grounds of suspected genetic diversity. Imprisonment of three generation of an offender's family. A lifetime political prisoner population of 200,000 - more than all the US military in Iraq; more than all the people in a small industrial city.
Claudia Rosette wrote a column when the report was released.
If anyone had bothered to scratch the surface of this site a little, you would soon realise that this is a dummy spoof site set up and run by a German businessman who uses it as a "sweetener" to get computing business in North Korea (which is illegal under UN sanctions, I believe).
He claims he is going to wire up North Korea via satellite - bul*shit!
If you really want to provide your personal details to an unscrupulous German, then feel free - you must really like spam.
It really does not deserve any further attention, other than to say "nice marketing ploy fella".
Anyone for an "official" Ossama Bin Laden blog?
Damian, UK
I object! While the press in DPRK is 100% unfree, the south Korean pess is not free at all. My boss went there on a press convention for new media, and the SK journalists were absolutely flabergasted by the ammount of freedom the press we are used to here. Not only can you be arrested (and frequently people do) for saying certain things in the press, but the media is tightly controlled by a consotrium of owners. The only really free media is an online newssite where hundreds of persons, journalists and non-journalists alike, contribute and 20-some persons edit and publish.
As for money, DPRK was actually richer than SK for a long time after the Korean war. They were bypassed in the eraly to mid 80ies since the USSR gave DPRK al lot of aid and trade. So did China.