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North Korean 3G Mobile Subscriptions Hit Half a Million

Posted by timothy on from the may-I-suggest-a-merger dept.

angry tapir writes "The number of 3G cellular subscriptions in North Korea passed half a million during the first quarter, according to the country's only 3G cellular operator. The Koryolink network had 535,133 subscriptions at the end of March, an increase of just over 100,000 on the end of December 2010."

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  1. Re:US: 2,000,000 in jail by Hultis · · Score: 5, Informative

    According to statistics from Wikipedia, 0.83% of North Korea's population lives in slave camps and 0.75% of the US population lives in prison. One could argue that slave camps are worse than prisons, but the numbers are very much comparable.