Articles by Martyn Williams


Nosotek’s News Corp. link

Bloomberg has a well-researched piece on Nosotek, the North Korean computer programming joint-venture that’s been busy developing mobile games. I spoke to the company back in June when I was…


Pyongyang gets social

Uriminzokkiri.com, the closest thing North Korea has to an official home page, got social in July when it joined Twitter and Facebook. The move generated lots of publicity and helped…


DPRK Cell-phone dialing codes

A post on NKEconWatch has some hard-to-find information about cell phone dialing codes in North Korea. The details show how basic communications controls exist based on the type of account…







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