How Many People Use the Internet in North Korea?

The answer is, not much:

There technically is an Internet that only a very small fraction of the population, including government employees or select university students, can access.

When they do, they likely only go to about the 10 to 15 “government-blessed” sites that computers in the country would be able to access, which would inevitably be monitored, said Martyn Williams, who runs a North Korean tech blog.

“They’re quite good at self-censoring,” Williams told ABC News. “They know what sites they should and shouldn’t go.”

New government-approved sites are added “every few months” but some examples that have been accessible outside of North Korea recently include a cooking website with different recipes for rice.

The Korea National Insurance Corporation has a rotating slideshow of pictures, including one that shows snow-covered artillery guns.

“Not many people have used it but it’s a lot of smoke propaganda,” Williams said.

The websites with servers that are based in North Korea and are visible outside its borders end in the .kp domain, though there is an entirely separate intranet system that residents are able to access through some library and university computers, Williams noted.

“That for most people is the closest they’ve come to a computer,” he said.

Williams estimated that the number of people who regularly use the Internet in North Korea was probably somewhere between 10,000 and 20,000 people, and since Monday’s attack took place in the evening hours local time, the number of people who noticed would be far less.  [ABC News]

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