[KS] North Korean website

[gchurst at sas.upenn.edu]

My password is ten characters, and I was able to register with no problem. Must
be a minimum requirement but they do not tell you how many characters you
need.

G. Cameron Hurst III
Director
Center for East Asian Studies
U. of Pennsylvania

Quoting R Baker <rbaker at stratfor.com>:

> 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
> Senior Analyst
> Director of Geopolitical Analysis
> Stratfor
> 
> 512.744.4312 phone
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> rbaker at stratfor.com
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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
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>   Email: afostercarter at aol.com               website:  www.aidanfc.net
> 
> 
>   __________________
> 
>   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.
> 
>