phone Arigang, developed from the Android system, was shown to the North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un during a visit to a factory. Jong-Un was accompanied by the head of the Workers Party and the North Korean Central News chief North Korean (KCNA), suggesting the possibility of smartphone come to be used for propagation government information.
The country has a network of telecommunications since 2008, after a partnership with the Egyptian company Orascom, but its activity is tightly controlled and monitored. The Asian nation had claimed last year that it had developed a tablet , although some sites have opened and examined the device have found evidence that was produced in China.
smartphone Arigan, whose name derives from a popular song of North Korea, will not have been produced by the country, the BBC defended the expert Martyn Williams, who maintains the site Tech and North Korea already dismounted tablet and found evidence of Chinese manufacturing. “The device was developed probably by a Chinese producer and then sent to a North Korean factory where it was inspected before leaving the sale,” says Williams.
North Korean citizens who have subscribed the only telecommunications service available in the country can make phone calls to each other, but calls abroad are prohibited. Internet access is even more limited, and it is estimated that only about a thousand people be able to connect to the Internet in North Korea, in a population of 25 million.
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