Information in North Korea

The website of North Korea's state news outlet Korea Central News Agency (KCNA) has mysteriously been taken offline. [...]

Since last month’s announcement of a proposal for the BBC to launch a Korean language radio service, the idea has drawn widespread approval. Sarah Son investigates why it makes sense. [...]

North Korea will soon allow foreign visitors access to the internet via its Koryolink 3G service, according to reports from the Associated Press Pyongyang bureau. [...]

Regardless of Google calls top open the internet, North Koreans find alternative ways to break the information blockade. Find out how the market plays a critical role in sharing information from outside. [...]

Is tourism really "booming" in North Korea like state news agency KCNA suggests? If so, what are the moral implications - and should it be something we encourage? [...]

Western tourists in North Korea have been banned from sending postcards home to friends and loved ones, supposedly as a result of "sanctions" passed in recent days and weeks. [...]

An American man who defected to North Korea after the Korean War has 'set up' a Twitter account and is said to be tweeting regularly from his home in Pyongyang. [...]

Today in North Korea there are around 1.5 million mobile phone users, mainly concentrated in the capital city of Pyongyang. However, these are not the functions for which some North Koreans are reportedly falling in love with cellphones. [...]

A change in national policy comes just days after Google chairman Eric Schmit's visit. Could this signal the country taking a more relaxed approach to the use of communication technology? [...]

Throughout the year 2012 Google received over 1.2 trillion searches in 142 different languages. Last year Google users searched millions times for information about Whitney Huston and Gangnam Style, and ogled millions of times over the images of One Direction and Selena Gomez.  While these terms may have been the zeitgeist, it wasn’t just pop-culture [...]