This is the second part of a series which will attempt to dive into some of the details of information access and consumption in North Korea, strive to explain the relevance of unprecedented level of illicit access among North Koreans to foreign media, and address the role of information in North Korea’s future. You can read part one here.

With the exception of a few hundred elites (some estimate a few thousand), North Koreans do not have access to the Internet. Instead, a state-controlled intranet, called kwang-myong, exists for North Korean citizens to use in in