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It also wants to reach its non-supporters abroad, though whether North Korea thinks its propaganda might be earnestly believed or is just hoping to further gin up international tensions with its regular threats is debatable.The second reason North Korea wants to access the internet is hacking. The only ISP in North Korea is the state-run Star Joint Venture Co. that uses a fiber-optic cable that runs between Pyongyang and Dandong in China. North Korea notoriously restricts access to the internet for its own citizens, but the full list of its websites visible to the outside world have apparently been revealed for the first time. Still despite these details, little is known about all the devices in North Korea connected to the Internet. Most of the country is still mired in poverty, much of it rural. Elon Musk’s much-anticipated Starlink internet service is scheduled to go online later this year, designed to provide fast satellite access to the internet from anywhere in the world – including North Korea. The country has aggressively grown its cyberwar divisions in recent years into But the third reason is less straightforward. All sorts of devices are hooked up to the Internet there, however. North Korea, in other words, is largely behind China's Great Firewall.However, North Korea also appears to have routed some internet connections through If you saw the real internet in North Korea, it would almost certainly be running on a top-of-the-line computer — or even an Apple device such as an iPad or iPhone — which are smuggled in for the use of elite officials. Let’s explain. Related: North Korea's attack should scare every company Who can access it? Market indices are shown in real time, except for the DJIA, which is delayed by two minutes.
In order to prevent these people from trying to defect when they learn how hellish their country is compared with the rest of the world — or, worse, spreading what they learn to other North Koreans — jobs that require internet access typically come with lavish salaries, high-end government housing, and lots of prestige.Either you are granted access to the internet because you are very elite, or you are granted elite status because of your internet access, but the two always go hand in hand.A North Korean mural in Pyongyang. (Feng Li/Getty Images)This question — why? For most North Koreans, it's nonexistent. How does it work?
North Korea's very top elite, the inner core of the inner core, access the internet because they simply don't live in the same universe as their countrymen. Researchers have even spotted a MacBook -- one single Macbook -- connected to the world-facing Internet. That small web of internet connections between North Korea and the outside world collapsed entirely on December, under an apparent mass cyber attack. Standard & Poor's and S&P are registered trademarks of Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC and Dow Jones is a registered trademark of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC. All rights reserved. The country is notoriously secretive and isolated. Sign up for the
Here's what it looks like.Melania Trump’s changes to the White House Rose Garden, explained Winners: nepotism and a Trump scion. Many of North Korea's physical internet connections go through a single line that runs from Pyongyang through North Korea's mountainous north and into China, where it connects … Still despite these details, little is known about all the devices in North Korea connected to the Internet. We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from.