North Korea’s Red Star OS goes Mac
Poor Microsoft. It seems North Korea doesn’t like the traditional Windows-look anymore. The latest version of the country’s home-grown operating system, Red Star Linux, has been restyled and ships with…
January 2014
Japan, US to increase intelligence sharing
Japan is sharing an increasing amount of intelligence information with the United States and emerging as a great partner in East Asia, the U.S. director of national intelligence said Thursday….
Internet access, computers and high-tech life at PUST
Will Scott, a computer scientist from Washington state, just returned from several months as a guest lecturer at the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (PUST). In an interview with…
Experiences of a PUST teacher
Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (PUST) is one of the more ambitious international ventures in North Korea of the last few years. Almost ten years in planning, PUST is…
New CRS report on North Korea
The Congressional Research Service has published a new report on North Korea. The report, “U.S. Relations, Nuclear Diplomacy, and Internal Situation,” is embedded below. CRS works for the U.S. Congress…
DPRK UN ambassador takes questions, gives advice
It’s not often that a North Korean official faces a skeptical press corps and takes questions. Judging by Friday’s appearance at the United Nations by DPRK Ambassador Sin Son-ho, it’s…
Unification Ministry to launch North Korean portal on Monday
South Korea’s Ministry of Unification will launch on Monday a new web portal focused on North Korea. The North Korea Information Portal, or NK Info for short, is intended to…
‘No discernible improvement’ in DPRK human rights in 2013
Human Rights Watch says it has seen “no discernible improvement” in the human rights situation in North Korea since Kim Jong Un took power in late 2011. The verdict, which…
Is this North Koreas first Bitcoin transaction?
Bitcoin has arrived in North Korea … sort of. A tourist on a trip to Pyongyang used the Koryolink mobile Internet service to make what is supposedly the first transaction…
