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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. Propaganda networks for the propaganda villiages? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'm surprised that the North Korean nomenklatura even numbers in the hundreds of thousands. This has the vague odor of propaganda about it...

  2. Re:US: 2,000,000 in jail by Zontar+The+Mindless · · Score: 3, Interesting

    And yet the US has only 13 times as many people.

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