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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. Inside DPRK by Mmm+coffee · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Here's an interesting article about a man's experiences when he went into North Korea, in case anyone's wondering what's really going on in there.

    1. Re:Inside DPRK by friedo · · Score: 3, Interesting
      Yeah, they're pretty similar. Except for the fact that people in the sourth aren't starving by the millions, don't have a fanatical national cult leader, are free to leave and come back to the country whenever they want, have an independent press, a thriving economy and cordial relations with the civilized world.


      Yep. Very similar indeed.

  2. Their Server Runs SUSE! by rally_redhat · · Score: 3, Interesting

    As mentioned before, clicking on their "One Korea" link gets you to a "page unavailable" message:

    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 The link on the referring page seems to be wrong or outdated.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.

    If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster.
    Error 404
    www.kcckp.net
    Sat Jul 17 18:31:28 2004
    Apache/2.0.48 (Linux/SuSE)

    Look at the last line.

    I was amazed initially - I thought "Linux really is everywhere" - until I realised that Microsoft probably doesn't have any branches in North Korea! That's one country where there won't be too many IIS servers!

  3. And others.... by jrumney · · Score: 5, Interesting

    There are others that have been around a while, this one seems to be set up by an expat group, but this one claims to be the official site of the DPRK government. Check the Welcome from Kim Jong-Il.

  4. check out the registration pull-down menus by js7a · · Score: 4, Interesting
    On the registration page, check out these two pull-down menus:

    Password hint question:

    The name of your best friend is ...
    The scenary I love most is ...
    My favorite movie star is ...
    How would Korea change after reunification?
    What will you do when Korea is reunified?
    My favorite movie is ...

    Nationality / citizenship:

    1. Korean
    2. Chinese
    3. German
    4. Russian
    5. Australian
    6. Bahrain
    7. Bangladesh
    8. Chinese [duplicate]
    9. Indian
    10. Indonesian
    11.Iranian
    12. Iraqi
    13. Israeli
    14. Japanese
    15. Jordan
    16. Kuwaiti
    17. Lebanese
    18. New Zealand
    ...
    52. Canadian
    53. Mexican
    54. American ["American"?]
    55. Argentinian
    ...
    97. Netherlander
    98. Portuguese
    99. Spanish
    100. English

    Apparently our sensitive alphabetical sorting technology has been sucessfully prevented from reaching the DPRK.

  5. Has anyone else registered? by Motherfucking+Shit · · Score: 3, Interesting
    There's an English version of the registration page. According to that page,
    "When you gain "Naenara" user ID, your webmail address is automatically allocated. eg: your "Naenara" ID@kcckp.net."
    root, postmaster, and kimjongil were already taken. But as soon as I figure out how to use the webmail interface, I'm abuse@kcckp.net .. Leave it to Korea to ignore the abuse account :)
    --
    "BSD: Free as in speech. Linux: Free as in beer. Windows 10: Free as in herpes." --Man On Pink Corner in #52607549.
  6. Interesting password hints by Desprez · · Score: 3, Interesting
    The password hint questions were an interesting change from the normal: mother's maiden name, pet's name, etc that we are so used to seeing from western/european registrations

    Here are the DPRK's registration password hint questions:
    The name of your best friend is...
    The scenery I love most is...
    My favorite movie star is...
    How would Korea change after reunification?
    What will you do when Korea is reunified?
    My favorite movie...

    (Emphasis mine)

    I'll say, they just can't resist packing in the propaganda and agenda into every square inch.

  7. FYI: Worldwide Press Freedom Index... by plj · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ...can be found here. Note: published at October 2002!

    Some countries of interest:

    1. Finland
    ...
    15. Switzerland & Costa Rica
    17. United States
    18. Hong Kong
    ...
    35. Taiwan
    ...
    38. Bulgaria
    39. South Korea
    40. Italy (the worst country of EU-15; hurrah, Berlusconi!)
    41. Czech Republic (back then not yet an EU member state)
    ...
    92. Israel (no Arab country performed in top 50, either)
    ...
    104. Afghanistan (year after collapse of the Taliban regime)
    ...
    130. Iraq (still Saddam's regime)
    ...
    138. People's Republic of China
    139. North Korea (the last one)

    --
    “Wait for Hurd if you want something real” –Linus
  8. Re:Inside DPRK: behind the scenes. by daviddennis · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Have you ever visited a Communist country?

    I have, Cuba in December 2002. It was a real eye-opener to see armed police on every street corner and people scared to talk to you when you took them out to a restaurant, because they knew the waiters are spies. And I'm not kidding.

    To see fear in the eyes of people, because they would be punished with three years in Re-Education Camp if they told you the truth ... that eliminates the "our society is screwed" attitude real fast.

    I know our society is imperfect. So are people, and so are all societies. But to say that people like living under tyranny because they don't have the power to overthrow it is just plain wrong.

    Incidentally, Castro wants Cubans to hate us, because it creates solidarity for his policies within Cuba. But after decades of deprivation compared to how life was pre-Castro, this is wearing more than a little thin. In my experience, it isn't working now. Every Cuban I encountered - and I encountered many - loves America.

    It seems like you have to live in a tyranny - or at least know what one's like - to appreciate what we have here.

    D