A new North Korean web portal on the nation’s intranet network offering job recruitment services to help businesses grow, among other features, was featured across multiple externally-focused state-run news outlets on Monday. 

“The National Science and Technology Committee (국가과학기술위원회) has started to operate the technological trade service system ‘Jagangryok’ (자강력, meaning ‘Self-Development’) on the country’s [intranet] network,” the articles read.

One feature, according to a detailed account of the service published by outlets Uriminzokkiri and Ryugyong, allows “companies [to] actively find and activate persons of talent to drive production and technological development.”

The “newly-developed … electronic business platform” reportedly