North Korea’s Android-based Achim tablet on video
North Korea’s Achim (Morning) tablet PC will soon become a year old. The tablet, which runs the Android operating system, was first unveiled in July 2012 as a computer to…
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Spring Trade Fair wraps up
The 16th Pyongyang Spring International Trade Fair wrapped up at the end of last week. I‘ve taken a look through some of the footage from Korean national television and KCNA…
Father, son indicted on exports of banned machinery to DPRK
U.S. prosecutors have indicted a Taiwanese father and son on charges related to the supply of machinery to North Korea that could be used in the production of weapons of…
Spring International Trade Fair set for next week
Pyongyang’s Spring International Trade Fair is due to open next week, the state-run Korea Central News Agency reported Monday. This year’s event will run from May 13 to 16 and…
DPRK inventors receive WIPO awards
Last week, the Korean Central News Agency reported that seven local inventors received awards from the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). The awards were handed out last Wednesday and were…
The importance of data security
When South Korean workers began leaving the Kaesong Industrial Zone a couple of weeks ago, they returned across the border in cars and trucks laden with as much finished merchandise…
Possible evidence of DPRK’s February nuclear test detected
A nuclear monitoring station in Japan has recorded what could be the first detection of radioactive noble gases from February’s nuclear test in the DPRK. The station is in Takasaki,…
Medicine database developed at Pyongyang Medical College Hospital
Pyongyang Medical College Hospital at Kim Il Sung University has developed a database of thousands of drugs, according to North Korean TV and radio reports. The “clinical medicine information service…
Noul industrial computer touted
North Korea’s KCNA news agency carried some images on Thursday of what it claims is North Korea’s latest computer. The machine, called “Noul” (??), was developed by Noul Technology Joint Venture…
