But at $300 a phone, and monthly costs, only elites can afford the Koryolink service from an Egyptian telecom firm. Many wonder what the regime's motives are: to monitor citizens, or finally open up? Amid the vegetable vendors and lightly stocked department stores, there's a new high-tech shop in low-tech Pyongyang, North Korea, selling a hot gadget the rest of the world already takes for granted.
North Korea Allows Cellphone Network
Los Angeles Times - Top News, Los Angeles Times
Sun, 03/22/2009 - 12:00am
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North Korea enacted a draconian law called the ... The law also makes international cellphone services and speaking South Korean slang illegal. K-dramas have increasingly found a worldwide ...
01/19/2024 - 10:57 pm | View Link - North Korea’s human rights: What's not being talked about
North Korea's woeful human rights record is one ... "You would have to get a Chinese cell phone on the black market, drive to the Chinese border and then even along the way state agents may ...
12/6/2023 - 1:57 am | View Link - Photos of every day life in North Korea
In August 2015, Getty Photographer Xiaolu Chu toured inside the walls of North Korea. While in the notoriously ... take these photographs with his cell phone. Produced by Darren Weaver.
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