North Korea. Kim Jong Una regime controls citizens’ smartphones
However, that’s not all. The degree of control was so huge that the smartphone secretly performed a screenshot every five minutes, storing images in a secret folder, to which the user had no access, but which, as suspected of BBC, was probably available to the authorities of North Korea. There were more suspicious smartphone behavior. When the user tried to enter the word « Oppa », which in Korean means an older brother, but in South Korean slang began to be used in relation to a boy, the phone automatically corrected the word to a more communist friendly alternative « companion ». BBC says that there was also a warning for the user of the phone that the term « OPPA » can only be used in relation to older siblings.
A suspicious smartphone from North Korea. Yes, Kim Jong Un controls citizens
« New York Post » informs that the bizarre Orwellian practices were revealed after Daily NK, a media organization based in Seoul, secretly smuggled a North Korean cell phone from the country at the end of last year.
Smartphones are now an integral part of the way North Korea is trying to indoctrify people. North Korea begins to gain an advantage in the information war
– said BBC Martyn Williams, an older employee of Stimson Center based in Washington and an expert in the field of North Korean technology and information.
According to « New York Post », other signs of tightening the rules were that the use of South Korean phrases or speaking with a South Korean accent was officially recognized by Kim as a state offense in 2023. Young people in the streets are stopped, and their phones controlled in terms of using « wrong words ».
North Korea checks citizens’ mobile phones
According to the American newspaper, this is a sharper approach from the regime of Kim is a response to the efforts of the South Korean government aimed at disseminating subversive news north of the border and opening the eyes to North Korea residents on how drastic life differently differs in the south.
I used to think it was normal that the state limits us so much. I thought other countries live with such control. But then I realized that this is only the case in North Korea
A young woman said in an interview with the BBC who got out of North Korea.
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Kim Jong Un is the leader of North Korea.
