North Korean authorities added two new websites to the DPRK Portal service earlier this week, one relating to state culture and one relating to education, bringing the total listed on the aggregation platform to 37.

Their addition comes amid a significant expansion of the domestic-facing DPRK intranet in recent years – a phenomena which may be resulting in some content being re-used on the increasingly diverse portfolio of the country’s outward-facing web infrastructure.

The Korean Art(조선예술) website “represents the Ministry of Culture of DPRK in the internet,” a notice on the site says, including information about North Korea’s orchestral