Kwangmyong, which is Korean for "bright star," is North Korea's officially sanctioned intranet. It looks sort of like the internet circa 1994; many users even access it with old-school dial-up or ...

Few foreigners have ever seen North Korea’s intranet. In 2015, photographer Aram Pan snapped a photo of a retro-style poster listing some intranet site addresses inside a library located in ...

Y ou will not, as a rule, run across many players from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (the DPRK, or North Korea) ...

A highly-monitored and curated intranet is offered to North Korean citizens – known as Kwangmyong – while global internet access is strictly limited in the authoritarian country.

A slightly larger group of privileged North Koreans can see a tightly controlled Intranet called “Kwangmyong,” meaning ... North Korea’s use of the Internet targets outsiders more than ...

The report says North Korean researcher Kim Suk-Han—all defector names within the research are pseudonyms for safety reasons—used the internet five times when they were living in the country.

Yesterday, users could have lost an Internet legend — the only player from North Korea disappeared from Steam. But Reddit was ...

Phone calls and internet activity are monitored by ‘Bureau 27’ in North Korea’s State Security Department. The unit specialises in covert intelligence, and uses sophisticated equipment to detect ...

The majority of people are only able to access a government-established intranet known as Kwangmyong, with only the elite in the government and leadership able to access the global Internet. The total ...

North Korean citizens have access to Kwangmyong – an intranet system which is heavily regulated and mostly consists of political propaganda and scientific information.

The UK-based researcher said the cause of the outage in the secretive state seems to be internal rather than an attack.