Censorship in North Korea
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North Korea ranks among some of the most extreme and controlled censorship in the world, with the government able to take strict control over communications. North Korea sits at one of the lowest plac
Mural of Kim Il Sung outside Songdowon Hotel, Wonsan
Propaganda in North Korea
Kim Jong Un in September 2023
Kwangmyong (network)
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Kwangmyong is a North Korean national intranet service opened in the early 2000s. The Kwangmyong intranet system stands in contrast to the global Internet in North Korea, which is available to fewer p
Censorship in North Korea
…curtailment. A tightly controlled cyberspace exists within the country where a small number of upper-class citizens have access to an intranet, called Kwangmyong. In contrast to the otherwise global World Wide Web, this independent resource provides communication between industry, universities, and government…
A computer room with access to Kwangmyong at the Grand People's Study House in Pyongyang