North Korea bans WiFi networks for foreigners

New legislation citing national security calls for immediate dismantling of WiFi
September 8th, 2014
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North Korean authorities have declared that foreign embassies, officials and international NGOs working in country can no longer use WiFi to connect to the internet, citing interests of national security.

Satellite internet access, which allows for foreigners to send information and data at almost no risk of interception from local authorities, will only be possible

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Leo Byrne

Leo Byrne is an NK News contributor based in London

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  • Warren Lauzon

    Almost every week I see more signs of desperation on the part of the regime to keep information as restricted as possible.

  • Shamik Chakravarti

    They invent new laws whenever convenient and seem determined to live in the past. I wouldn’t be in the least bit surprised if they “abolished” all electronic devices and gadgets in the name of security.

  • Joe Krozac

    Here is the appropriate, universal response needed for the “North Korean State Radio Regulatory Department” …

    GO FUCK YOURSELVES!!

    What foreign embassies do within the confines of their sovereign territory is no business of anyone. What are the little North Korean fascists going to do, violate and invade the suspected offending embassies with ‘inspections’?

    I’m looking forward to the day when fat boy Kim Jong Un and his murdering family syndicate end up like Nicolai Ceausescu and his malodorous wife Elena, in December 1989.

  • Richard Thompson

    SHAME ON THE PEOPLE OF THIS WORLD TO ALLOW THE PEOPLE OF NORTH KOREA TO SUFFER ANOTHER COLD DAY.