People watch a television news report, showing file footage of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un, at a railway station in Seoul on September 9, 2016. (Photo : Getty Images/ Jung Yeon-Je)
One security engineer managed to discover that North Korea only has 28 websites that people are able to access in the country compared to the millions across the globe.
It is no secret that the North Korean government is strict with everything in its country and the website count is not really that surprising. Taking photos inside the country is even forbidden unless a photographer is explicitly given permission to do so.
Security engineer Matt Bryant stumbled upon the list of the only websites that people in North Korea are able to access and the total number was found to be 28 which is seriously small compared to other countries, NPR has learned. The list includes all of the North Korean websites ending in .kp which is the domain country code for the said country.
Even some of the websites in the list are just clones of other popular websites found across the globe. One site potal.net.kp is found to be just a clone for the famous Yahoo web content portal.
Some of the website designs are even outdated even though the content is regularly updated. There is even one website rodong.re.kp which has a list of their Supreme Leader's activities, BBC News reported.
North Korea even has one website for cooking recipes and one seems to be a Facebook clone. The korfilm.com.kp website is dedicated to showcase their films and has details for the currently ongoing Pyongyang International Film Festival.
Unfortunately, the list did not include the closed intranet sites that North Korea might have. These are usually accessed through inside the country and not available outside it since there is no permitted connection.
After the list of North Korean websites were posted online, several publications reported that most of the sites were downed. The reason behind it is probably the huge spike in traffic stemming from the interests of the users.
North Korea's websites offer what can be seen and heard in the country but the design surely states that they are not updated in terms of web development. Most of the websites are also just for propaganda and not really that informative.
