The Kim Jong Un administration from North Korea continues to be at the center of attention for its apparently control practices. Fresh evidence of Orwellian practices appeared after the phone smuggled from North Korea, revealed cool details about how the secret dictatorship carries control of its people.
To suppress the cultural influence from South Korea and any potential rebellion, the North Korean regime is one step ahead and uses modern technology for its draconian clamps. The BBC recently analyzed a smartphone smuggled from North Korea last year. All these devices do not have Internet access. The North Korean government uses a language automatic concealer to censole ordinary South Korean slang.
The term “South Korea” is automatically corrected to read the “puppet state”, while “OPPA”, which refers to a friend in South Korea, is replaced by the word “comrade”, which is a more communist alternative, BBC investigated.
South Korea is a worrying attraction on smartphones
The most popular revelations that emerged are revealing “screen images every five minutes”. In the video, the BBC correspondent physically assessed the smuggled gadget, it is heard, as he says: “The phone takes a screenshot of the screen every five minutes, but the user cannot open these files, only the authorities can see what people look at or share things they don’t.”
This shows how the totalitarian regime of North Korea uses technology to remove the influence from the outside world and isolated its citizens to continue their authoritarian government.
“Smartphones are now part of North Korea trying to load people,” BBC quoted an expert in North Korean technology and information Martyn Williams.
The scope of control can be assessed by censorship of South Korean television dramas, external newspapers and television channels and a ban on the use of South Korean phrases or South Korean accent equal to state crime. Even styling hair and dressing like South Korean can attract disciplinary action.
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