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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.
Now if only they could just figure out how to feed their people :-(
I look forward to open, unbiased communication free of propoganda or heresay.
- Allen Pike
Altering time, one time at a time.
username: slashdot
password: password
Invalid password.
Oooh.. let's see just how much bandwidth the north koreans have.
... With PHP!?!?!?
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.
Click "One Country":
Kinda figures.
I believe posters are recognized by their sig. So I made one.
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.
BLAST!
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.
traceroute says that the 2nd to last hop is kcc.cust-gw.ipberlin.com, following some .de domains.
echo 'Header append X-HD-DVD "0x09f911029d74e35bd84156c5635688c0"' >>
... the first North Korean internet site has been slashdotted.
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!
What about the "official web site"?
http://www.korea-dpr.com/
As mentioned before, clicking on their "One Korea" link gets you to a "page unavailable" message:
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!
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.
When I look at this website it reminds me of how much good the US has done around the world. If it wasn't for us there would not be a North Korea. There wouldn't be a South Korea either for that matter because the whole damned peninsula would be under the lead boot of a communist dictatorship. The DPRK should stand as a reminder of just how much evil there is in the world, and just how easily that evil can prevail.
It is because of us that South Korea is free, and God willing one of these days we'll bring freedom to ALL of Korea.
Lee
Muslim community leaders warn of backlash from tomorrow morning's terrorist attack.
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"
Exerpted from the top-selling title:
DISTORTION OF US PROVOCATION OF KOREAN WAR
PREFACE
Since June 25, 2000, the 50th year since their unleashing the Korean War, the United States has been bent on grossly distorting the history of the war and will continue to do so until 2003, with a sinister aim to shift the blame for their war, the blame for their aggression, onto the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).
Holy #&$@ing shit, what a bunch of nutballs!
Oh - and what's going to happen in 2003? This yankee imperialist running dog of capitalism wants to know!
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.
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.
With this slashdotting, I wouldn't be surpried their next front page news is 'World attacks North Korea's computer infrastructure'..
"97. Netherlander" Those bastards misspell my nationality. It's either Nederlands or Dutch...
"Academicians are more likely to share each other's toothbrush than each other's nomenclature."
Cohen
"BSD: Free as in speech. Linux: Free as in beer. Windows 10: Free as in herpes." --Man On Pink Corner in #52607549.
Kim Jong Il has a weblog.
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
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.
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?
The World Wide Web is dying. Soon, we shall have only the Internet.
Do you mean sites like this or this?
flossie
Write now. Defend liberty
Word will spread and some patriotic script kiddie with a huge bot net will flex his capitalistic pride and this website will be at the brunt of it.
Mark my words.
Now with clickable goodness! Here's the whois info. Damn, I should learn to preview.
Am I the only one who finds it strange that the pages with the N. Korean constutition repeatedly praise a single individual? As screwed up as the United States is right now, (I liked the days with a Democratic president and a Republican Congress, government was so busy bitching at each other they left me and the American people alone. :) At least my constution begins with "We the People...." not "The Democratic People's Republic of Korea is the socialist motherland of Juche which has applied the idea and leadership of the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung." This makes me happy I am in a first world industrialized nation.
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.
Not completely, but they are actually working toward that goal.
For instance, you will see one Korean team at the Olympics this summer under the banner of a united Korea.
Despite the US being against it, a unified Korea is for the best. It would solve most of the problems currently posed by North Korea, including the nuclear one.
Of course, then the US will have no need for troops in Japan or South Korea...
"The path of peace is yours to discover for eternity."
Japanese version of "Mothra" (1961)
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)
Lisp is the Tengwar of programming languages.
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.
I want to drag this out as long as possible. Bring me my protractor.
...can be found here. Note: published at October 2002!
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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
I'm not saying that America's actions toward either Korea have always been snow white innocent (support for South Korean dictators in the name of stability comes to mind), or that America's policies towards North Korea make complete sense, but to suggest that America wants the conflict to continue so that we might maintain troops there--that's silly. The American troops stationed in Korea are sitting ducks. Sacrificial lambs. A human tripwire. An intentional Pearl Harbor/Alamo-style vulnerability. Okinawa's a different story--if Korea united tomorrow, I doubt America would feel a need to pull out of Japan.
...sorry for being unjust; Finland actually shares the top position with Iceland, Norway and Netherlands. Immediately after this top four comes Canada.
Btw, the Palestinian National Authority performed 82, above Israel itself. Forgot that, too.
“Wait for Hurd if you want something real” –Linus
...imagine what would happen if there was any downtime...I shudder to think.
I am NaN
This has to be a first. Slashdotted a country!
FoundNews.com - get paid to blog.,
I can't see the South Koreans loving the prospect of seeing their economy crumple to dust when they have to start providing for twenty two million new citizens with no first-world-economy skills.
> It would solve most of the problems currently
> posed by North Korea, including the nuclear one.
There are plenty of problems with the notion of a unification of the two Koreas. This is why the South and the US are prepared to throw money at them to keep doing what they're doing and let the South continue on in stability, so longer as the north don't threaten that region's stability with a nuclear threat.
Believe with me, my saplings.
It's producing animated cartoons of more or less famous characters. The work has been outsourced from Western companies, because NorthKoreans work cheaper than anybody else on this planet and produce good quality (which you probably can't always say for Chinese correction-facility-inmates, which are reportedly even cheaper).
Next time you watch some Sunday-morning-cartoon, think a moment of those poor people in NK.
Rainer
Windows 2000 - from the guys who brought us edlin
Above link is a Goatse redirect.
...and that's the end of our show. Donk!
If I recall correctly, one of the big "problems" the studies found with the US press is that they're expected to abide by the law like all the rest of us. There's no magical protection for them (though an awful lot of them think it). They can't get past police barriers, withhold tip-offs of impending terrorism (and other crimes) without legal repercussions, etc.
How very sad for us. Somehow, I don't feel quite so bad about being 31.
I got my Linux laptop at System76.
Actually, the site is pretty funny. Let's see, when you register you can select the occupation of "soldier", something I have never seen before. But I guess when 70% of your population fits that label...
Or the page where they act as if Kim Il Sung is still alive (kind of). The guy died years ago and they are celebrating his 92nd birthday. The page says 1912-2004, as if they just recently decided to acknowledge his death.
I just picture the people who put the site together. "We're finished!" And then they were shot.