North Korea's Insane Internet Rules

(Verified Information) In 2014, a teenager from North Korea was put to death.

"Before his fellow students."

A young woman, concealing her feelings for a certain gentleman, refrains from crying.

She is feeling intense anger and bitterness, realising that this young man is innocent and has not done anything wrong on the surface.

Engage in a well-known computer game that she has learned about from her respected leader, Kim Jong-il.

Engages in play activities with American children in a clandestine manner.

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In the year 2014, North Korea was characterized by widespread paranoia due to the ruling supreme leader.

His group of jolly companions had developed fresh laws that appeared stringent, even in comparison to those of North Korea.

North Korea has an internet service, but it differs from the one used by most individuals.

Their internet is operated and managed by the state.

The computer network system is referred to as the Kwangmyong intranet and is commonly utilized by individuals residing in the area.

cities.

In many cases, individuals living in rural areas may not have the necessary resources to obtain it.

Regarding the standard internet service available worldwide, it is necessary to possess certain expertise or at least some level of proficiency to access it.

An individual of significant importance, such as prominent scientist or a government-backed hacker, holds great value in their respective field.

We will soon educate you about the activities of the elites on the regular internet, something that remains unknown to many.

may surprise you.

If you’ve ever looked at websites in North Korea, you’ll know that fake news is the

news.

Spreading propaganda is the name of the game.

We know this partly because, about eight years ago, some of those websites were made available

to regular internet users outside of North Korea.

You can access them today, but rest assured, North Korea only allows us to see what they

want us to see.

There’s much more to their internet than meets the eye, literally.

Even something as harmless as a cooking website is home to unbelievably outlandish propaganda

and lies.

One such sight tells the reader that North Korea has existed as one homogenous nation

since the “dawn of human civilization.”

That’s plainly not true.

The site says North Korean culture goes back half a million years.

Funny that; civilizations might only go back 12,000 and homo sapiens 300,000.

We guess the first proto-humans must have been called Homo-Erectus!

These guys were apparently cooking up tasty cuisine and writing books when the rest of

the primates were picking the poop of each other’s butt hairs and hadn’t quite figured

out how to keep a fire going.

The website says of the thousands of North Korean dishes that have been around for thousands

for years, there is scientific evidence of them being exceptionally nutritional.

One article says North Korean food has created “world models in terms of nutritive and

hygienic values.”

The leaders don’t believe this, of course, but to remain in control, the citizens must

think they are getting food far superior to everyone else in the world.

Still, the many North Koreans who have starved over the years obviously see holes in this

narrative.

The problem is, they can’t talk about it.

Some of them want to.

It’s just hard getting the word outside of the country.

Another post says North Korean noodles were lifting up the nation thanks to the “sagacious

leadership of the Chairman who treasured the national things most.”

Another post says North Korean noodles were lifting up the nation thanks to the “sagacious

leadership of the Chairman who treasured the national things most.”

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Now back to North Korea.

As we mentioned in the beginning of the video, when the leader makes a speech like that,

you’re expected to clap like crazy, and we mean clap until your hands hurt.

There’s barely a page on the North Korean internet where Comrade Kim Jong-un is not

celebrated.

The “immortal achievements” of “peerless great men” are talked about everywhere,

and when there are photos, you’d think that every single North Korean was the happiest

person alive.

God, they must love their country…

One thing they don’t love is the US, the country, along with Japan, that wants to ruin

the amazing life that North Koreans have.

You can learn on many North Korean websites, even in the movie review section, that America

is evil and its citizens are all drunk on propaganda.

We aren’t kidding.

They think it’s you guys that lap up fake news.

If they knew the expression, they’d call Americans “sheeple.”

We especially like a review we found for the classic movie “Outcry of Mothers.”

The movie apparently exposes how the US slaughtered North Korean kids back in the day.

Here’s some of the synopsis, written in flawless English.

“The US imperialists brought fierce flames of war to this peaceful land full of laughs

with liberation.

It depicts on the basis of historical facts the hot-blooded outcry of souls who were

massacred cruelly by the US imperialists and class enemies, cry out the revenge on the

US imperialists and we should surely sum up with the imperialists at the cost of blood.”

As you know, that’s not how things happened, but what if North Koreans could go online

and find out the truth?

That would be dangerous for the leaders and their great fictional narrative, which is

why a North Korean citizen can get executed for merely using an internet-connected device.

The regime just cannot have anyone doing this, even if it’s just a two-minute conversation

or internet search.

imagine if North Koreans went online and watched international news for a few minutes.

It would blow them away.

It would be akin to realizing you don't have a physical body and you’re just a brain

in vat; a la something like The Matrix.

Article 60, which was updated in 2014, states that a person who merely watches a foreign

DVD, even just a South Korean soap opera, could be acting to “overthrow the state.”

That’s right.

Just going online and streaming an utter garbage piece of television can end with ten years

in a re-education camp or execution.

Join a chatroom on the regular internet, and they can absolutely expect a death sentence.

You already know why.

They don’t want people learning something which could lead to a change in the narrative

North Koreans have had their throats forced down since birth.

Article 60 says they could be handed the death penalty for tuning into an online radio broadcast.

Even if they skip the news and only listen to music, that could also mean a death sentence.

After all, maybe they’d tune into a song by the rapper Method Man and hear:

“Hit the strip, I drop a bomb in thirty minutes like I'm North Korea

It takes a lot to beat us; you better join us.”

That can of worms cannot be opened; it can’t even be shaken about or held too close to

a light.

That’s why the North Korean State Security Department (SSD) went after a guy named Ri

Kyung-ho and also took down his family.

His crime was reported as contacting the outside world.

His brothers, who were both arrested, held respectable positions, one as a choir singer

and the other as a children’s TV producer.

They were probably harmless, but if some light had gotten into North Korea via their brother,

it might have been passed to them.

This is why the state decided it was time for a black-out.

A North Korean source told the western media at the time:

“In times gone by, you could bribe your way out of this, but right now, they’re

sure to punish you.

Nobody knows when or why they might get caught up in it, so everyone is nervous.”

That’s the thing with totalitarian governments.

They keep everyone on their toes.

North Korea is following a model in this respect.

For instance, during the dark days of Stalinist rule in Russia, the brilliant composer and

pianist Dmitri Shostakovich kept a packed suitcase next to his apartment door at all

times.

Even though he tried composing ideological music that Stalin might like, he knew that

they might come for him any day.

Like in the Soviet Union in those days, in North Korea, they also come for you in the

middle of the night, and sometimes, you just disappear.

They might take your family, too.

The rules about the outside world are the same if people stream content or watch pre-recorded

content.

During those 2014 crackdowns, 100 people were rounded up all at once and accused of watching

South Korean dramas.

The news said they were all accused of “anti-socialist elements” and exiled to live in a rural,

mountainous area.

In another case, two teenage boys were shot to pieces while watching South Korean dramas.

Just a year before that, 80 people were executed for watching online content, although it’s

said some were killed for owning Bibles.

Christianity is illegal in North Korea.

There’s only enough room for one opiate of the masses, the Kim's.

A source said one man was machine-gunned down in a stadium with 10,000 spectators watching,

a spectacle of violence that the leaders must have thought would deter other people from

watching an episode of “My Love From The Star.”

As we said, it’s not that watching daft soap operas is in itself dangerous, but they

do show a life that North Koreans aren’t supposed to see.

Hmm, we don’t know what’s worse, totalitarian censorship or people thinking something akin

to “The Days of Our Lives” is reality.

It also has to be said that some South Korean soaps, such as “Doctor Stranger,” don’t

exactly paint North Korea in a very good light.

As one Korean expert said at the time of the mass executions, “The regime is obviously

afraid of potential changes in people's mindsets.”

Just recently, some people were sentenced to death when the authorities found out that

some students had been watching Squid Games.

They didn’t go online, though; the copies were given to them on a USB.

The smuggler got the death penalty, and the students who watched the show were given five

years of hard labor in the mines.

The authorities said this kind of thing was damaging to the nation.

An article at the time said even American pop music was a huge threat to the powers

that be.

Can you imagine North Koreans getting onto YouTube and watching this show?

If they did, those machine guns would soon be whipped out.

Moving on, in 2016, something appeared on the North Korean internet that we don’t

I was ever supposed to be accessible outside of the country.

Facebook…but not the real Facebook, a North Korean clone that was only up for a short

time.

No one knows why that happened, but if North Korea does now have a site that looks like

Facebook, rest assured that the unspoken community guidelines will contain words like “machine-gunned

to death” in the small print.

North Korean social media would be the polar opposite of Twitter, meaning it would be a

a place where everyone says they are happy and compliments everyone and everything in society.

It would look like this: @Kim Jung-un

Poll: Who’s the best, most supreme, handsome, and clever leader of all time?

Me: 26,065,291 Someone else: 0

Also, in 2016, it was revealed that North Korea’s state broadcaster KCTV had invented

a box for citizens that gave them a kind of Netflix experience.

Its name was Manbun.

As usual, we don’t know much about it, only that it had five channels showing various

programs and a documentary channel.

There’s something else you need to know about the North Korean internet.

News can be ephemeral; it can disappear fast because when something happens, that contradicts

something that has been said in the past, people might start asking questions.

The obvious example is a high-ranking official being called brilliant, wise, and wonderful

for many years, and then the same guy gets executed.

In this case, all the news about him gets wiped from the Korean internet.

It happened to a high-ranking guy named Jang Song Thake.

For years this man was hailed as a national hero.

He was loved by the people not only because of his immortal work but because he was married

to the only daughter of the former North Korean Premier, Kim Il-sung.

That made him the uncle by marriage of the great, illustrious Kim Jong-un.

Nonetheless, in 2013, Jang Song Thake was introduced to North Korea’s famous firing

squad.

For what crime exactly, we don’t know.

He was accused of all manner of things from drug use to womanizing to corruption and gambling

and said to have lived a “dissolute and depraved life.”

The reality is that he’d been brave enough to criticize some of his uncle’s policies.

In his list of crimes, he was accused of only “half-heartedly clapping” when Kim Jong-un

was made vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission.

In case you didn’t know, just like in the days of Stalin, no one in North Korea dares

to be the first to stop clapping, which can make clap-fests go on for a rather long time.

On North Korean TV, about 20 percent of the content is happy people clapping.

Everyone must have really strong biceps there, which, as you’ll see, could come in handy

for some people.

Many top officials end up being sprayed with bullets, so every now and again, someone has

to go through the internet to make sure their name no longer appears in any stories.

That must have been some job with Jang Song Thaek because he was all over the internet.

In one year alone, 15 officials were executed after being accused of challenging Kim Jung-un’s

authority.

The people don’t usually question why someone goes missing from their internet because they’ve

already been told the guy is a traitor.

Still, what would you guys think if Donald Trump or Joe Biden were rubbed from online

history after being impeached and removed from their POTUS position?

You’d be suspicious, and we guess some North Koreans have felt that way, too.

It goes without saying that the real internet won’t come to North Koreans anytime soon.

Just in 2021, Kim Jong-un called the global internet a “vicious cancer.”

in reference to the things found on it, including pop music.

Reports at the time said some people had just been executed for nothing more than “watching

or distributing K-pop videos.”

It’s more likely they watched copied content rather than accessed the outside internet,

though.

The supreme leader said such content corrupted the minds of North Koreans, seemingly unaware

that he’d spent his entire life doing exactly that.

He wanted to make the message clear to all, with reports saying some of the young K-Pop

fans were executed in front of their parents.

Sometimes the executions were shown in schools.

One girl said she and her classmates were forced to watch one when they were only in

grade 2.

She said: “The prisoner could hardly walk and had

to be dragged out.

I was so terrified that I could not dare look at a soldier in uniform for six months afterward.”

It sounds awful, but state media reminded them that K-Pop will make North Korea “crumble

like a damp wall.”

Also, in 2021, it was reported that North Koreans who mimicked the south’s accent

or sang songs that vaguely resembled the music of the south would be arrested.

There’s a story about North Koreans once getting their hands on some smuggled digital

content, only to learn to their utter astonishment, that while they were experiencing a famine,

people in the South were obsessed with weight loss diets.

They couldn’t believe people actually wanted less food.

As you know, even when they’re starving to death, North Koreans are reading about

happy people enjoying plentiful, nutritious food that goes back half a million years.

Just looking at food and health websites on the real internet could really turn things

upside down for North Koreans.

Still, maybe more people are starting to see the truth.

The Seoul National University’s Institute for Peace and Unification Studies conducted

a study of 116 people who’d managed to defect from North Korea.

It was discovered that half of them had watched foreign content at one point or another while

in North Korea.

An official government document that was smuggled out of the country stated, “The phenomenon

of distributing impure publications and propaganda is not disappearing, but continuing.”

It’s hard to keep an entire nation down, but in a way, you have to credit North Korea

for managing to keep up this theatre for so long.

Still, you have to wonder how much longer the secrecy will last.

If many folks are really watching outside content these days, something should change

soon.

That crack in the door is widening.

The worms are pushing themselves out of the can, inch by inch, and when enough of them

escape, Kim Jung-un’s house of deceptive and flattering cards will come tumbling down.

The people will soon figure out that their leaders have about as much intrinsic value

as a moldy potato.

They’ll discover their great nation comes absolute bottom of the World Press Freedom

Index and realise they live in a country where “systematic, widespread, and grave violations

of human rights” are what they’ve normalised since childhood.

About 4 million people already have Korean phones in North Korea, but those things are

only good for calling people inside the country and have zero internet access.

But we found reports that shed some light on how many North Koreans are watching foreign

content these days.

It seems people are smuggling phones across the Chinese border that are hooked up to the

Chinese internet.

Sure, China has its Great Firewall, but it’s more like a rickety old fence compared to

North Korea’s firewall.

Some of those smuggled Chinese phones have already been used to access non-approved content.

People just have to be careful who they discuss the content with, ‘cos rest assured, just

as the Stanford Prison Experiment showed us, more people are followers than natural-born

dissidents.

In North Korea, friends can easily become enemies.

Others are rightly afraid they’ll get a visit from the North Korean security personnel,

“Group 109.”

This outfit has been aggressively monitoring the people of late to ensure they’re not

getting a whiff of that other reality.

Arrests were made not long ago after Group 109 found signals coming from those contraband

phones.

One thing we’re absolutely sure of is that Kim Jong-un, and his buddies at the top of

The regime’s pyramid is all using the regular internet.

Western researchers in 2017 said they tracked North Korean internet activity and found out

that the top dogs have a penchant for browsing Instagram accounts, looking at Facebook and

Amazon, and even playing online games.

They particularly liked the online multiplayer game, “World of Tanks.”

That means some of you out there might have possibly played against the tubby tyrant and

i did not even know it.

Meanwhile, the regime is getting kids to play homemade games that promote the Kim family

ideology.

World of Tanks means the death penalty for those kids.

You might not be surprised to hear that this band of murderous men in the Hermit Kingdom

also spent a lot of time working out their clapping biceps during long sessions on pornography

websites.

While regular folks in North Korea were getting their pornography fix in the shape of bootleg

videos of women dancing in their underwear, the elites were using VPNs to get their rocks

off to American MILFs and faux-Japanese schoolgirls: the enemy!

As they feed the people balderdash and warn them about their minds being corrupted by

South Korean pop songs, they’re busy answering that ancient Zen Buddhist riddle, “What

is the sound of one hand clapping?”

It sounds like totalitarianism watching Pornhub is the answer.

If you’re watching this show, dear North Korean officials, we expect there’s a chance

you know the game is almost up; the secrets are spilling out, megabyte by megabyte.

You should hold up your hands and come clean.

As a famous man once said, “The truth shall set you free.”

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