Netflix style video-on-demand services via quasi-internet protocol television (IPTV) have come to North Korea, state broadcaster the Korea Central Television (KCTV) showed on Tuesday.

A set-top box named ‘Manbang’, which means ‘everywhere’ or ‘every direction’, enables viewers to replay documentary films about the leadership and learn Russian and English languages, using IPTV services.

If true, the ‘Manbang’ represents a stunning development in domestic North Korean television technology, considering the highly limited availability of internet in the country.

The number of secure internet servers per million people in the DPRK was rated as zero in 2015, according to statistics from the World