North Korea, one of the world’s few remaining information black holes, has taken the first step toward a fully fledged connection to the Internet.

But a connection, if it comes, is unlikely to mean freedom of information for North Korea’s citizens.

In the past few months, a block of 1,024 Internet addresses, reserved for many years for North Korea but never touched, has been registered to a company with links to the government in Pyongyang.

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