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<DIV><SPAN class=625551318-19072004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Make
sure your password is eight characters long, and it should work (did for me,
didn't when mine was just six)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=625551318-19072004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>-R</FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR>
<P><FONT size=2>Rodger Baker<BR>Senior Analyst<BR>Director of Geopolitical
Analysis<BR>Stratfor<BR><BR>512.744.4312 phone<BR>512.744.4334
fax<BR>rbaker@stratfor.com<BR>www.stratfor.com<BR> </FONT> </P>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
Koreanstudies-bounces@koreaweb.ws
[mailto:Koreanstudies-bounces@koreaweb.ws]<B>On Behalf Of
</B>Afostercarter@aol.com<BR><B>Sent:</B> Monday, July 19, 2004 11:30
AM<BR><B>To:</B> Koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws<BR><B>Subject:</B> [KS] North
Korean website<BR><BR></FONT></DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT lang=0
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" face="Times New Roman" size=3 FAMILY="SERIF"
PTSIZE="12" BACK="#ffffff">At last, a (the?) real North Korean website! See
below.<BR><BR>Trouble is, I can't register. I fill out the form, but
am<BR>endlessly asked to fill in my password, even when<BR>I already did
so.<BR><BR>Anyone else have this problem? (Maybe the software<BR>can smell a
capitalist running dog ....)<BR><BR>cheers<BR>Aidan FC<BR><BR>AIDAN
FOSTER-CARTER<BR>Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Sociology & Modern
Korea, Leeds University <BR>17 Birklands Road, Shipley, West Yorkshire, BD18
3BY, UK <BR>tel: +44(0) 1274
588586
mobile: +44(0) 7970 741307 <BR>fax: +44(0) 1274
773663
ISDN: +44(0) 1274 589280<BR>Email:
afostercarter@aol.com
website: www.aidanfc.net<BR><BR><BR>__________________<BR><BR>CNN.com -
North Korea opens pilot Web portal - Jul 15, 2004
<BR><BR>
North Korea opens pilot Web
portal<BR>
Friday, July 16, 2004 Posted: 0253 GMT (1053 HKT)
<BR><BR>
SEOUL, South Korea (Reuters) -- Reclusive North Korea has been
<BR> testing
its first Web portal for the past month, but so far visitors
<BR> have
not been able to access the entertainment, shopping and free
<BR> e-mail
facilities it
promises.<BR>
The Naenara ("My Country") site at <B>www.kcckp.net</B> is based in
<BR>
Germany, and links to information on North Korean politics, tourism
<BR> and
trade, along with its official media and "real time" music and
<BR> movies
decorate the home
page.<BR>
The Web site, available in English and Korean, says it received more
<BR> than
14,000 visitors on Wednesday. But visitors seeking the kind of
<BR> content
usually expected of commercial Web portals would have come
<BR> up
empty-handed.<BR>
While the ubiquitous martial music of the world's most militarized
<BR> state
emanated from the page, links to e-mail service and multimedia
<BR> content
were not
functioning.<BR>
But visitors who registered could browse the latest news -- from
<BR> June --
published by the state-run Korean Central News Agency
<BR> (KCNA),
a mouthpiece of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il and his
<BR>
communist
government.<BR>
KCNA has been available on the Internet for about five years on the
<BR>
Japan-based site www.kcna.co.jp. Another North Korean site,
<BR>
www.uriminzokkiri.com, publishes Pyongyang views from
China.<BR>
The new portal provides the North Korean telephone numbers of state
<BR> trading
companies that offer products ranging from "stylish dresses
<BR> of fine
workmanship" to ferrous and nonferrous
metals.<BR>
The launch follows the start of online gambling run by the North two
<BR> years
ago and an online shopping mall in the South that sells goods
<BR>
imported from the
North.<BR>
Naenara is located on a server based in Germany and was registered
<BR> at the
end of May, domain research service Whois.net
says.<BR>
Contact telephone numbers provided for the site's Web master are
<BR> based
in North Korea, whose leader Kim is believed to be an avid Web
<BR> surfer
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