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South Koreans reading North Korean newspaper online is on the rise: Seoul

Increase in Rodong Sinmun readers at government-run digital archive follows President Lee’s push to open up access

The number of people viewing North Korea’s ruling party newspaper Rodong Sinmun digitally at a state-run facility in Seoul has increased since the publication was reclassified from anti-state to general material, according to South Korea’s Unification Ministry.

Views of Rodong Sinmun from a digital archive system at the ministry’s Information Center on North Korea rose from 3,475 to 6,125 between January and February, and 10,092 in March, according to a fact-sheet from the ministry Wednesday. 

The views decreased to 8,632 in April and 7,889 in May.

System users totaled 84 in January, 71 in February, 100 in March, 106 in