North Korea, the surveillance state
It actively spies on its citizens through mass surveillance programmes, and curtails the information that North Koreans have about their country and the outside world by censoring online media
In summary, Kwangmyong vs. Internet in North Korea represents a stark divide: a tightly firewalled national network for the masses, versus highly restricted true Internet access for the privileged few. North Korea's telecom and internet market is dominated by state-controlled entities and a few joint ventures.
For example, a large “Internet Communication Bureau” headquarters was reportedly under construction in Pyongyang in 2018, which suggests an effort to centralize and manage increasing network traffic and perhaps host domestic servers for intranet and internet services.
Even today, North Korea is believed to maintain some satellite communication capability as a backup and for special uses – for example, certain military or diplomatic communications might be routed via satellite if land lines fail .
The primary focus of the study was on the ability of North Koreans to access outside information from foreign sources through a variety of media, communication technologies and personal sources. The relationship between information exposure on North Koreans' perceptions of the outside world and their own country was also analyzed.
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