Horrors of the North Korea Internet Iceberg

To this day, there is not a single country that the internet has not reached. North Korea, despite its extreme isolation, is no exception. But, unlike the rest of the world, internet access there is far from available to everyone. And even the few who are allowed to use it cannot venture beyond the internal network. Or can they? This

is the iceberg of North Korea's internet. And today you will learn what happens when you watch a Hollywood film, where the most successful hackers come from, and why you should be careful with laptops. Level one. The KP national domain. The official domain of the DPRK, registered in 2007. One of the most closed and mysterious

domains on the global network. In 2016, a North Korean programmer accidentally revealed to the world a hidden list of all the country's websites. It turned out that across all of North Korea, there were only 28 active sites. As of today, that number has grown only slightly to about 40 pages. For comparison, the Russian ru domain has

over 6 million. But, this is the only external domain created exclusively for foreigners. There also exists an internal domain operating within the closed Kwangmyong network. According to various estimates, between 1 and 5,000 unique sites are registered in the internal domain. Tourist Wi-Fi. There is no Wi-Fi for tourists in North Korea in the conventional sense. Pocket

routers or international e-sims do not work in the country. And cellular roaming from foreign providers is completely absent. Nevertheless, it is possible to access the internet in North Korea. The first way is through Wi-Fi in hotels and guest houses. As a rule, the signal is only available in the hotel lobby or business centers, but not in