Inside a phone smuggled out of North Korea

Smuggled North Korean phone exposes four chilling differences to devices in rest of the world

Last year, the BBC smuggled a smartphone out of North Korea that showed shocking differences to our own devices

Censorship Embedded In North Korean Cell Phones Highlights Drastic Lengths Authoritarians Will Go To Restrict Citizens’ Freedom

Will this type of dystopian technology ever reach the West?

A Smuggled Smart Phone From North Korea Shows The Insane Levels Of Censorship And Command And Control The Regime Has

A smuggled phone has revealed the extreme extent of North Korea's censorship under Kim Jong Un, where everything South Korean is banned, phones autocorrect words, internet access is blocked, and authorities secretly monitor users. Everything South Korean is banned in Kim Jong Un’s North Korea, a country that enforces strict censorship across all forms of media to shield its citizens from the realities of the outside world. A mobile phone smuggle…

Smuggled North Korean Phone Reveals Extreme Censorship, Surveillance: "Screenshot Every 5 Min"

These devices are embedded with tools that aim to enforce the state's ideology, perpetuate the hate campaign against neighbouring South Korea.