Thursday, January 15, 2015 11:38:13 PM
FRONTLINE - Secret State of North Korea
Aired: 01/14/2014 53:41 Rating: NR
FRONTLINE shines a light on the hidden world of the North Korean people, drawing on undercover footage from
inside the country as well as interviews with defectors who are trying to chisel away at the regime’s influence.
http://video.pbs.org/video/2365155890/
.. it's on Netflix, for one .. YouTube, too, for $1.99 .. watching now .. there is a
comfortable elite .. and a department store that doesn't have anything for sale ..
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Yes, North Korea has the internet. Here's what it looks like.
Updated by Max Fisher on December 22, 2014, 5:00 p.m. ET @Max_Fisher max@vox.com
Kim Jong Un sits at a computer workstation at the E-Library at the KPA Exhibition of Arms and Equipment Rodong Sinmun
North Korea is so paranoid about its citizens accessing the internet that merely owning a computer requires permission from local government authorities, and all personal computers are registered with the police, as if they were shotguns. Private ownership of fax machines is banned outright, and sending a single fax requires high-level authorization. Meanwhile, pirated DVDs of South Korean TV dramas are so illegal that North Koreans caught in regular police sweeps for them can be sentenced to years in labor camps. So you can imagine how tightly restricted internet access would be in the Hermit Kingdom.
Still, North Korea does have the internet. .. http://www.vox.com/2014/12/22/7435625/north-korea-internet
Aired: 01/14/2014 53:41 Rating: NR
FRONTLINE shines a light on the hidden world of the North Korean people, drawing on undercover footage from
inside the country as well as interviews with defectors who are trying to chisel away at the regime’s influence.
http://video.pbs.org/video/2365155890/
.. it's on Netflix, for one .. YouTube, too, for $1.99 .. watching now .. there is a
comfortable elite .. and a department store that doesn't have anything for sale ..
---
Yes, North Korea has the internet. Here's what it looks like.
Updated by Max Fisher on December 22, 2014, 5:00 p.m. ET @Max_Fisher max@vox.com
Kim Jong Un sits at a computer workstation at the E-Library at the KPA Exhibition of Arms and Equipment Rodong Sinmun
North Korea is so paranoid about its citizens accessing the internet that merely owning a computer requires permission from local government authorities, and all personal computers are registered with the police, as if they were shotguns. Private ownership of fax machines is banned outright, and sending a single fax requires high-level authorization. Meanwhile, pirated DVDs of South Korean TV dramas are so illegal that North Koreans caught in regular police sweeps for them can be sentenced to years in labor camps. So you can imagine how tightly restricted internet access would be in the Hermit Kingdom.
Still, North Korea does have the internet. .. http://www.vox.com/2014/12/22/7435625/north-korea-internet
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