Internet
How about our good friend the internet? While around 2 million citizens are said have access to computers, they only have access to an intranet system that contains information filtered and determined by the government. Internet access is restricted to a limited few such as universities or some members of the elite. Computers must be registered with the authorities including those for official organizational use and home computers are not allowed to be connected to the intranet system.
Mr Kim Joo-il, who fled the DPRK and now runs a website with political news and human rights information about the DPRK, testified before the Commission that his page was attacked on so many occasions that his service provider informed him that it was no longer willing to host the webpage.
In the free world most of us get sick and tired of all the banal, repetitive, incomplete and down-right wrong information we can access, but at least we get the choice to ignore it.
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