North Korea is placing restrictions on the operation of prepaid mobile internet and broadband services provided by the majority foreign-owned telecommunications company Koryolink, pamphlets recently obtained by NK News reveal.

The brochures, given to foreign visitors to Pyongyang to help them get online, suggest that broadband service plans for laptops and wireless internet services for mobile phones specifically place restrictions on Koryolink which do not affect the DPRK government-run telecom operator Kang Song NET.

Koryolink (CHEO Technology Joint Venture) was established with investment from Egypt’s Orascom Telecom Media and Technology Holding S.A.E (OTMT), and Orascom continues to control a 75 percent