North Korean Business Park Getting Internet Access 46
Daniel_Stuckey writes "A business park in North Korea will soon have (limited) access to the Internet, according to news reports. The Register wrote that an industrial park in the Kaesong Industrial Region will house Internet-connected PCs by the first half of this year. The Daily NK explained that the first step to connectivity will be an Internet cafe with 20 computers but afterward company offices will also be connected. They quoted a spokesperson from the Ministry of Unification — a department of the South Korean government that works on unifying the two Koreas — as saying, 'We are planning to launch the basic level of Internet services at the Kaesong Industrial Complex starting in the first half of this year,' and adding, 'Officials and employees in the North's border city will be able to use most of the online services now available in South Korea.'"
Re:But ... (Score:4, Funny)
At least that would be coherent with other behaviors of that country, like three generations life imprisonment in torture camps for arbitrary reasons.
Forcing their population to use Verizon broadband might be a bit over the top, though.
Of COURSE North Korea has Internet access (Score:4, Funny)
Kim Jung Un invented it, after all.