[KS] North Korean website

[R Baker]

Make sure your password is eight characters long, and it should work (did
for me, didn't when mine was just six)
-R


Rodger Baker
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Director of Geopolitical Analysis
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  -----Original Message-----
  From: Koreanstudies-bounces at koreaweb.ws
[mailto:Koreanstudies-bounces at koreaweb.ws]On Behalf Of Afostercarter at aol.com
  Sent: Monday, July 19, 2004 11:30 AM
  To: Koreanstudies at koreaweb.ws
  Subject: [KS] North Korean website


  At last, a (the?) real North Korean website! See below.

  Trouble is, I can't register. I fill out the form, but am
  endlessly asked to fill in my password, even when
  I already did so.

  Anyone else have this problem? (Maybe the software
  can smell a capitalist running dog ....)

  cheers
  Aidan FC

  AIDAN FOSTER-CARTER
  Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Sociology & Modern Korea, Leeds
University
  17 Birklands Road, Shipley, West Yorkshire, BD18 3BY, UK
  tel: +44(0)  1274  588586             mobile:  +44(0)  7970  741307
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  CNN.com - North Korea opens pilot Web portal - Jul 15, 2004

              North Korea opens pilot Web portal
              Friday, July 16, 2004 Posted: 0253 GMT (1053 HKT)

              SEOUL, South Korea (Reuters) -- Reclusive North Korea has been
              testing its first Web portal for the past month, but so far
visitors
              have not been able to access the entertainment, shopping and
free
              e-mail facilities it promises.
              The Naenara ("My Country") site at www.kcckp.net is based in
              Germany, and links to information on North Korean politics,
tourism
              and trade, along with its official media and "real time" music
and
              movies decorate the home page.
              The Web site, available in English and Korean, says it
received more
              than 14,000 visitors on Wednesday. But visitors seeking the
kind of
              content usually expected of commercial Web portals would have
come
              up empty-handed.
              While the ubiquitous martial music of the world's most
militarized
              state emanated from the page, links to e-mail service and
multimedia
              content were not functioning.
              But visitors who registered could browse the latest news --
from
              June -- published by the state-run Korean Central News Agency
              (KCNA), a mouthpiece of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il and
his
              communist government.
              KCNA has been available on the Internet for about five years
on the
              Japan-based site www.kcna.co.jp. Another North Korean site,
              www.uriminzokkiri.com, publishes Pyongyang views from China.
              The new portal provides the North Korean telephone numbers of
state
              trading companies that offer products ranging from "stylish
dresses
              of fine workmanship" to ferrous and nonferrous metals.
              The launch follows the start of online gambling run by the
North two
              years ago and an online shopping mall in the South that sells
goods
              imported from the North.
              Naenara is located on a server based in Germany and was
registered
              at the end of May, domain research service Whois.net says.
              Contact telephone numbers provided for the site's Web master
are
              based in North Korea, whose leader Kim is believed to be an
avid Web
              surfer himself.

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