In front of the Park, Rumsfeld was doing a presentation about the domestic enemies of the Park: North Korea. He stretched satellite imaging photo of the Korean peninsula at night.The results of the photo was like the heavens and the earth. Southern Korea a light shower.While neighbors to the north smothering dark.
For them the light or dark matter is important. Because, says the results of two research teams of U.S.researchers,it is related to the income of residents in a region. Therefore,they also observed changes in light of the night in a country that had no definite economic statistics,such as Iraq,Algeria,and Haiti.
Chosun Ilbo website reported that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), noting that evening lights North Korea produced only about two percent of South Korea. North Korea was undergoing economic crisis, famine, and electricity restrictions.
Electricity is only lit a few hours a day. According to The Telegraph, electric railway in North Korea often crashed, and stopped halfway. Sometimes the train back in operation after hour,day,or even two days later. No wonder when North Korea at night looks dark from the sky.
Not only that, the North is also known as the country's most 'offline' world. The country is like cut off from communication with the outside world. Internet connections and mobile phones is very rare. NGOs report that fighting for press freedom,Reporters Sans Frontieres, was even dubbed the country as 'the worst Internet black hole in the world'.
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The two Koreas did not like.South Korea is a country in the world's best internet connect. More than 80 percent of homes connected to high-speed internet connection. U.S. home Internet hosting companies,Akamai,said the South Korean people are connoisseurs of the world's fastest internet connection. The country also has wireless broadband internet subscribers largest.
Satellite photographs of North Korea at Night
On the other hand, you could say North Korea is still analog in nature. According to Reporters Sans Frontieres report titled "Enemies of the Internet, Countries under surveillance by"last year,where the Internet network connected via satellite to servers abroad. The facility is accessible only to a small portion of the North, namely high-ranking officials and foreign diplomats.
Ordinary people should only be connected to the Intranet network of 'Kwangmyong'. The network was available for 24 hours through a dial up connection. Kwangmyong provide email inbox,local news information contained propaganda, as well as information from outside the North Korean website that has been censored.
Kwangmyong also provides data access to large data banks of three sources: the Grand People's Study House (large library of North Korea) as well as the library of the University of Kim Il-Sung and Kim Chaek Universities.
Limited-reaching cellular services were introduced in the North by the Egyptian company Orascom, since 2008. However, it is very expensive cellular tariffs. Gaeatnya, he did not provide international connections. The customers that did not escape from government monitoring. In 2007,for example,the North Korean regime executed a cellular phone user. He is known to make international calls abroad.
Internet cafe or cyber cafe is very rare in North Korea. In fact, the cafe only provide connections to the network Kwangmyong, not to the international Internet network. Internet shop is tightly controlled by the only official state-owned access provider,Korean Computer Center (KCC).
As a result,the Internet for the North Koreans, was more like a rumor. Since the last four years,North Koreans were given food rations every month. They had enough trouble finding ways to survive, rather than wasting time to the cafe to surf in cyberspace.
Grass soup?
North's great famine disaster lurks. Foreseen this disaster is worse than a similar disaster in the 1990s,which killed around a million inhabitants. World Food Programme,United Nations agencies that deal with food problems, estimates that six million North Koreans threatened his life. The root of this disaster is a crop failure due to the long winter,and also the recent floods.
The situation is bad. Even if the Telegraph report is true, the people there is said to be looking for wild plants in the suburbs to eat. "Our residents are very poor, they had to go to the mountain to find the grass to make soup. Some people eat the fertilizer, because they do not get rice or corn, "said Kim Yeong, 68, of North Koreans who had just fled to China.
It is conceivable,amid the threat of famine, the Internet and information needs are the priority the umpteenth. Moreover,to pay the connection cafe for an hour only, visitors must be dug koceknya of U.S. $ 8.19 (approximately USD 70 thousand), or almost half of the average monthly income people of that country.
Digital Revolution
But then a wave of the digital revolution can not be dammed. As quoted from the AP, slowly but surely,the North began to glance at information technology. The new creed was echoed:utilizing science and technology to build the economy.
Starting from the anniversary of the birth-100 days 'Founding Fathers' Kim Il Sung, North Korean government proclaimed the creed had become a mission country. The new slogan was introduced.
In the turn of this year's editorial,North Korea stressed the importance of science and technology in this IT era. Since the end of the year, the term 'CNC' (computer numerical control) periodically starts are common in the state media, propaganda posters,T-shirts,and the Arirang mass games.
Campus began to be given various support facilities. At the University of Kim Il Sung, for example. The campus had no heating for the students in the winter, but it's got a new library with a collection supercanggih 2.8 million digital books from various countries. It includes English-language textbooks published by McGraw-Hill.
Student Kim Il Sung University in Pyongyang to operate computers
In class,students record the lecture in a computer operating system Linux. They are connected to the intranet via a wireless router 3Com mounted on the classroom walls. Lectures can also be done remotely,without having to attend class. Teaching materials can be transmitted real time to the entire campus via webcam.
"For North Korea, IT is a new topic is warm again," said Paul Tjia, a Dutch IT consultant who has worked with the company's annual North. Because, this will open up new employment opportunities,including job opportunities abroad,or to companies overseas.
From the bank until the games
In fact, computer technology is not something new for North Korea. Kim Jong Il is known as a figure of technological literacy. When he met U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright in 2000,he had asked Albright email address.
On another occasion, Kim had also said there are three kinds of fools live in the 21st century. Namely, people smoke, who do not appreciate music, and lastly, who could not use a computer.
Without much publicity,a few North Korean IT companies to develop financial software for banks in the Middle East, various applications for mobile phones Japan and South Korea,even some video game consoles for Nintendo and Playstation (See infografik: North Korea in the digital era).
Although the U.S. banned exports of the iPhone and iPad to this country, but the software developers working in North Korea Nosotek based in Pyongyang. During this time the company was not absent supplying games for Facebook,iPhone,iPad,Nintendo Wii and BlackBerry.
Not only that, the North is also known for its warehouse hackers. They do not have great infrastructure,but very eager to cripple the Internet infrastructure of other countries. Cyber attacks in 2009 to be one obvious example. (See Cyber Soldier Tale North Korea)
For example, hackers launched an attack North Korea in March. About 40 web site South Korean military and civilian, as well as U.S. military sites in South Korea fell back. Interestingly,of which there are 14 sites that had also been paralyzed in 2009.According to Dmitri Alperovitch, Vice President McAffe (computer security company),the attack was more to test the reaction of U.S. and South Korea.
At least, now North Korea began opening up to technology. Last year they opened the account Uriminzok (meaning: the People We - ed) on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube even though it was none other than their propaganda. Government-owned airline, Air Koryo not miss opening their account on Facebook,and invite a lot of interaction.
Views of North Korea's account at Twitter page
But some analysts caution that the digital revolution is just smooth succession strategy that will be North Korea's future. Kim Jong-Il is now ailing. Now the authority is ready to slide into the hands of his youngest son Kim Jong-Un, which tasted western education in Switzerland.
According to Brian Myers North Korea watchers, the digital revolution aims for this new leaders will be adored and eagerly anticipated by their people. "Kim Il Sung to the throne as a military legend. Kim Jong Il also do the same. What I would do in their position, is to associate (Jong-Un) with technological innovation," said the professor of international relations.
Not much information about Jong-Un, 26-year-old crown prince's. Many doubted he was capable of leading the North to rise from adversity. "They (the government) told us, he (Jon-Un) will provide success and goodness in the political, economic, and cultural," said Kim Hua, a resident of the city of Hamhung in North Korea told the Telegraph.
Technology may be able to improve the condition of North Korean society. But there was no certainty when it comes Jong-Un. "You have to believe him,even though you do not," said Kim Hua
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