North Korea is the most isolated nation on Earth. With dictator Kim Jong Un testing nuclear weapons, North Korea is one of the most dangerous. Somehow, North Korea accidentally confirmed what most of the world already knows. North Korea’s Internet lack is revealed.
Someone in Pyongyang (North Korea’s capital and largest city) leaked access to all the websites on their government’s servers. We find out there are only 28 website domains. That’s right; there are only 28 websites available for North Korea’s 25 million people. Early Tuesday morning North Korean time, their main server containing all 28 ‘k.p.’ sites, was tampered with. This allowed websites to be exposed. The cat is not only out of the bag, but running all around the world. A researcher named Matthew Bryant accessed domain names and file data. Bryant transferred his new found information on Github.com, a website dedicated to software builders. Some North Korean websites can’t be uploaded. Some are very slow to upload. But it’s more than enough expose the secret online world on North Korea, well, what little online world they have. Not only that, Reddit put up all 28 North Korean websites. They include a flight booking website, a state run news agency, a cooking site, education sites, elderly charity sites, even a friendship network.
This should give a peak into North Korea’s lifestyle. But it doesn’t. You see, most of the North Korean people have no website access at all. In North Korea, only government officials, military personnel, and the super rich have the ‘luxury’ of the Internet. But even those who do have online access have very little of it. Let’s face it, many of us Americans look at 28 sites in one day. That’s all they have to choose from. I pity the person who leaked this information out. I’ve read articles where Kim Jong Un had people killed just for sleeping during his speeches. He’s had family members tortured, then killed for the same entertainment we get going to a concert or sporting event. Can you imagine what’s going to happen to whoever leaked this super secret information? And here’s another question: Did he/she/they accidentally leak it? Or was it deliberately done?