North Korea's Internet strategy and its political implications.
During recent years, the role of information technology in shaping politics and social movements in the digital age is drawing increasing scholarly attention. There is, however, little such literature on North Korea as the country remains almost completely cut off from the Internet. Since the mid-19...
| Publicado en: | Pacific Review Vol. 23; no. 5; pp. 649 - 671 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=55328892&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 55328892 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 09512748 5C0 jtl: Pacific Review issn: 09512748 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Dec2010 vid: 23 iid: 5 pid: 377 pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd artinfo: ui: 55328892 10.1080/09512748.2010.522249 ppf: 649 ppct: 22 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 279KB tig: atl: North Korea's Internet strategy and its political implications. aug: au: Chen, Cheng Ko, Kyungmin Lee, Ji-Yong affil: University at Albany, State University of New York, USA Cheju National University, South Korea Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security (IFANS), South Korea su: Internet access control -- Government policy Government policy on information technology Internet censorship Information filtering Internet access control Social history North Korea sug: subj: North Korea Internet access control -- Government policy Government policy on information technology Internet censorship Information filtering Internet access control Social history keyword: Internet Kwangmyǒng Kwangmyǒng Mosquito-Net model NǔngRa-88 NǔngRa-88 ab: During recent years, the role of information technology in shaping politics and social movements in the digital age is drawing increasing scholarly attention. There is, however, little such literature on North Korea as the country remains almost completely cut off from the Internet. Since the mid-1990s, the DPRK government has strategically developed its information and communication technology and has subsequently built a domestic intranet. Although North Korea keeps a minimal presence on the web, there are signs that the country is taking small and cautious steps to allow some social elites to take advantage of the Internet in order to leapfrog its economic development. Indeed, a high-profile defector indicated that North Korea will most likely start allowing wider but limited internet access in the near future. This paper examines North Korea's intranet and Internet policies and explores their political implications by drawing upon first-hand data from Korean sources and existing literature as well as by juxtaposing the North Korean case with other communist regimes such as China and Cuba in terms of their attempts to control and manipulate the Internet. It shows that the DPRK government is likely to learn from the Chinese and Cuban experiences and adopt a 'Mosquito-Net' model in controlling the Internet in an effort to attract foreign investment while keeping out information deemed threatening by the regime. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Pacific Review is the property of Taylor & Francis Ltd and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Pacific Review holder: Taylor & Francis Ltd dt: @attributes: year: 2010 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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