US EditionInside a phone smuggled out of North Korea
- In late 2024, the BBC acquired a mobile device illicitly brought out of North Korea that exposed the regime’s extensive censorship and surveillance practices within the country.
- The device exemplifies North Korea’s heightened efforts to suppress South Korean cultural elements, such as prohibiting certain words and expressions associated with South Korea.
- The smartphone runs a modified Android version that restricts users to a closed intranet and takes screenshots every five minutes for government review.
- For example, the phone autocorrects 'oppa' to 'comrade' with a warning it only refers to siblings, and replaces 'South Korea' with 'puppet state'.
- These controls demonstrate North Korea’s extreme censorship and surveillance regime targeting external influences to maintain ideological control.
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A Smuggled Smart Phone From North Korea Shows The Insane Levels Of Censorship And Command And Control The Regime Has
A smuggled phone has revealed the extreme extent of North Korea's censorship under Kim Jong Un, where everything South Korean is banned, phones autocorrect words, internet access is blocked, and authorities secretly monitor users. Everything South Korean is banned in Kim Jong Un’s North Korea, a country that enforces strict censorship across all forms of media to shield its citizens from the realities of the outside world. A mobile phone smuggle…
A forbidden word in a text message triggers a warning. Every five minutes, a screenshot is taken that only the regime can access. Mobile phones are the trump card in the fight for total control.
·Stockholm, Sweden
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