WFP video from Anju, Wonsan
In my daily monitoring of North Korean news and information I come across a wide range of material, much of it reported and posted by general-interest North Korean blogs like…
Articles by Martyn Williams
Orascom CEO back in Pyongyang
The CEO of Egypt’s Orascom Telecom Media and Technology (OTMT), which owns 75 percent of North Korea’s sole 3G cellular operator, is back in Pyongyang, according to KCNA. [Updated. See…
China modernized North Korea’s TV news
The sudden refresh of North Korea’s staid state TV evening news appears be thanks to help from China’s state TV broadcaster. China Central Television, the government-run broadcaster of China, donated 5…
New! The North Korean YouTube List
On the right of the home page you’ll find a link to a new resource on North Korea Tech: a listing YouTube channels associated with North Korea. The first North…
More from the Pyongyang trade fair
Earlier I wrote about a new Android tablet computer called Samjiyon that was on show at the 8th Pyongyang Autumn International Trade Fair. Some of the images came from a KCNA…
Samjiyon Android tablet debuts at Pyongyang trade fair
A North Korean company says it has developed a tablet computer based on Google’s Android operating system, according to reports from the 8th Pyongyang Autumn International Trade Fair currently taking place….
Pyongyang Maternity Hospital gets advanced Siemens scanners
If you watch North Korea’s evening news for any number of days, you’ll usually come across medical features that show the inside of hospitals and the pictures are never particularly…
WIPO tech exports didn’t violate rules finds UN committee
A United Nations committee has concluded the World Intellectual Property Organization’s (WIPO) technical assistance program didn’t violate U.N. Security Council resolutions. In question were exports of computer equipment by WIPO…
Voice of Korea gets an e-mail address
Voice of Korea, the DPRK’s international shortwave radio service, has started telling its listeners it has an email address. The radio station opened a web site more than a year…
