Isolation In North Korea
Life inside the cruel sheltered North Korea is hard to except both for the individuals living there also the people of the western world. Dictator Kim Jon-Un rules with an iron fist. The public is not allowed freedom of numerous things that Americans take as normal routine.
All the suffering of the average North Korean — the 24.7 million who live in abject poverty in the world’s most isolated nation. North Korea’s human rights record has are condemn by Human Rights Watch and the United Nations. Under those circumstances; the government maintains little communication with the outside world. The nation has so little electricity that in the nighttime satellite imagery shows that North Korea goes dark, the only country in the world not …show more content…
One way to maintain that isolation, it seems North Korea has learned, is by controlling access to the Internet. By most estimates, less than a tenth of a percent of North Korea’s population is allowed to use the Internet (for comparison’s sake, approximately 80% of the United States population regularly uses the Internet, and the average person spends two hours per day online). But that’s far from the strangest part. These 27 facts and images reveal just how strange the Internet is inside North Korea. For starters, the vast majority of North Koreans don't have the internet; they have an intranet. In North Korea, they call this instead Kwangmyong (known in English as "Bright."Kwangmyong is free and universally accessible (largely by dial-up connection) inside North Korea. However, purchasing a computer in North Korea requires government permission and, on average, about three months' salary. Thus, very few citizens own a computer and use Kwangmyong. For those who do, Kwangmyong features between 1,000 and 5,500 "websites," that are mostly state-run news services, academic resources, and sites belonging to government …show more content…
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea has held a series of events to celebrate the 103rd birth anniversary of late founder Kim Il Sung, or the "Day of the Sun.” We can do some back of the envelope math, to sum up; a rudimentary sense of exactly how much revenue these flower vendors are pulling in. The population of North Korea is approximately 24 million. If we exclude workers who don’t have enough money to purchase the flowers, we are left with at least 10 million people. With this in mind; Faux flowers cost KPW 500 each, while real flowers cost about KPW 1000 each. Therefore; that would bring the total revenue to KPW 5 billion - 10 billion (USD 600,000 - 1,200,000). Excluding azaleas, hence not many flowers are blooming in North Korea during the month of April. So that means that any available authentic flowers were grown in greenhouses specifically for sale during Kim Il Sung’s birthday. If the timing is right, the growers and artificial flower producers can both hit the
All the suffering of the average North Korean — the 24.7 million who live in abject poverty in the world’s most isolated nation. North Korea’s human rights record has are condemn by Human Rights Watch and the United Nations. Under those circumstances; the government maintains little communication with the outside world. The nation has so little electricity that in the nighttime satellite imagery shows that North Korea goes dark, the only country in the world not …show more content…
One way to maintain that isolation, it seems North Korea has learned, is by controlling access to the Internet. By most estimates, less than a tenth of a percent of North Korea’s population is allowed to use the Internet (for comparison’s sake, approximately 80% of the United States population regularly uses the Internet, and the average person spends two hours per day online). But that’s far from the strangest part. These 27 facts and images reveal just how strange the Internet is inside North Korea. For starters, the vast majority of North Koreans don't have the internet; they have an intranet. In North Korea, they call this instead Kwangmyong (known in English as "Bright."Kwangmyong is free and universally accessible (largely by dial-up connection) inside North Korea. However, purchasing a computer in North Korea requires government permission and, on average, about three months' salary. Thus, very few citizens own a computer and use Kwangmyong. For those who do, Kwangmyong features between 1,000 and 5,500 "websites," that are mostly state-run news services, academic resources, and sites belonging to government …show more content…
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea has held a series of events to celebrate the 103rd birth anniversary of late founder Kim Il Sung, or the "Day of the Sun.” We can do some back of the envelope math, to sum up; a rudimentary sense of exactly how much revenue these flower vendors are pulling in. The population of North Korea is approximately 24 million. If we exclude workers who don’t have enough money to purchase the flowers, we are left with at least 10 million people. With this in mind; Faux flowers cost KPW 500 each, while real flowers cost about KPW 1000 each. Therefore; that would bring the total revenue to KPW 5 billion - 10 billion (USD 600,000 - 1,200,000). Excluding azaleas, hence not many flowers are blooming in North Korea during the month of April. So that means that any available authentic flowers were grown in greenhouses specifically for sale during Kim Il Sung’s birthday. If the timing is right, the growers and artificial flower producers can both hit the