North Korea Tech » Reporters Without Borders http://www.northkoreatech.org Tue, 30 Dec 2014 04:52:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1 DPRK organizations called out for censorship http://www.northkoreatech.org/2014/03/13/dprk-organizations-called-out-for-censorship/ http://www.northkoreatech.org/2014/03/13/dprk-organizations-called-out-for-censorship/#comments Thu, 13 Mar 2014 01:53:38 +0000 http://www.northkoreatech.org/?p=5827
Three of North Korea’s state security and censorship organizations have been called out by Reporters Without Borders in the organization’s latest ranking of “Enemies of the Internet.” The report was published on Wednesday, which RSF and Amnesty International have named world day against cyber censorship. The three organizations named by RSF are the Central Scientific and…
 
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]]> http://www.northkoreatech.org/2014/03/13/dprk-organizations-called-out-for-censorship/feed/ 1 North Korea Tech DPRK again one from bottom on press freedom ranking http://www.northkoreatech.org/2014/02/12/dprk-again-one-from-bottom-on-press-freedom-ranking/ http://www.northkoreatech.org/2014/02/12/dprk-again-one-from-bottom-on-press-freedom-ranking/#comments Wed, 12 Feb 2014 00:49:17 +0000 http://www.northkoreatech.org/?p=5777
North Korea has held on to its position as the second-worst country in the world for press freedoms, according to the latest annual survey by Reporters Without Borders. The report, published on Wednesday, put North Korea at position 179. During 2013, the country was singled out for particular criticism by the group for media coverage of…
 
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North Korean state media’s coverage of the arrest, trial and subsequent execution of Jang Song Thaek was “tantamount to mass intimidation,” Reporters Without Borders said on Thursday. “Although only to be expected from one of the world’s worst dictatorships, such manipulation of news and information is disturbing,” the Paris-based group said in a statement. “The extensive…
 
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]]> http://www.northkoreatech.org/2013/12/20/mass-intimidation-from-dprk-media-on-jangs-execution/feed/ 1 North Korea Tech Schmidt’s Washington speech on North Korea, Internet and dictatorships http://www.northkoreatech.org/2013/05/13/schmidts-washington-speech-on-north-korea-internet-and-dictatorships/ http://www.northkoreatech.org/2013/05/13/schmidts-washington-speech-on-north-korea-internet-and-dictatorships/#comments Mon, 13 May 2013 05:01:02 +0000 http://www.northkoreatech.org/?p=4707
Google has posted video of Eric Schmidt’s remarks at the recent “Big Tent” event in Washington, D.C. The Google-organized events act as idea summits and have been running for about three years and the D.C. event took place on April 26. During his speech, the chairman of Google talked about North Korea and the impact…
 
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]]> http://www.northkoreatech.org/2013/05/13/schmidts-washington-speech-on-north-korea-internet-and-dictatorships/feed/ 0 North Korea Tech North again ranked second worst for press freedom http://www.northkoreatech.org/2013/01/31/north-again-ranked-second-worst-for-press-freedom/ http://www.northkoreatech.org/2013/01/31/north-again-ranked-second-worst-for-press-freedom/#comments Thu, 31 Jan 2013 04:38:55 +0000 http://www.northkoreatech.org/?p=4014
File this one under business as usual. North Korea was again ranked second-to-last in Reporters Without Borders’ annual press freedom index while South Korea continued to drop down the ranking. The Paris-based press censorship watchdog ranked North Korea as 178th in its survey, just one rank above Eritrea. “Kim Jong-un’s arrival at the head of…
 
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]]> http://www.northkoreatech.org/2013/01/31/north-again-ranked-second-worst-for-press-freedom/feed/ 0 North Korea Tech DPRK again named “Enemy of Internet” http://www.northkoreatech.org/2012/03/13/dprk-again-named-enemy-of-internet/ http://www.northkoreatech.org/2012/03/13/dprk-again-named-enemy-of-internet/#comments Mon, 12 Mar 2012 17:42:43 +0000 http://www.northkoreatech.org/?p=2716 North Korea remains high on the list of enemies of the Internet, Paris-based Reporters Without Borders said Monday in an annual report on Internet censorship. The country was listed alongside Bahrain, Belarus Burma, China, Cuba, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Vietnam as a home to the world’s most repressive online regimes. The news…
 
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]]> http://www.northkoreatech.org/2012/03/13/dprk-again-named-enemy-of-internet/feed/ 8 DPRK again at bottom of press freedom ranking http://www.northkoreatech.org/2012/01/28/dprk-again-at-bottom-of-press-freedom-ranking/ http://www.northkoreatech.org/2012/01/28/dprk-again-at-bottom-of-press-freedom-ranking/#comments Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:37:43 +0000 http://www.northkoreatech.org/?p=2628
North Korea has again been ranked the second-worst country in the world for press freedom by Reporters Without Borders. The Paris-based organization has consistently ranked the DPRK at the bottom of the world in terms of press freedom for the last decade. “It is no surprise that the same trio of countries, Eritrea, Turkmenistan and North Korea, absolute dictatorships that…
 
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]]> http://www.northkoreatech.org/2012/01/28/dprk-again-at-bottom-of-press-freedom-ranking/feed/ 3 North Korea Tech RSF reports on media in North Korea http://www.northkoreatech.org/2011/10/11/rsf-reports-on-media-in-north-korea/ http://www.northkoreatech.org/2011/10/11/rsf-reports-on-media-in-north-korea/#comments Mon, 10 Oct 2011 16:59:29 +0000 http://www.northkoreatech.org/?p=2225
Reporters Without Borders has published a detailed report on the North Korean media landscape. The report is the result of of a fact-finding trip to Seoul in July by an RSF staffer and concludes that North Korea is no longer as sealed off from the outside world as it used to be. Shortwave radio broadcasts from foreign…
 
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