North Korea Accidentally Lets World Access its Internet and it Only Has 28 Websites

Someone in North Korea is in a lot of trouble.

The secretive state somehow accidentally opened access to all the websites hosted on its servers, revealing that it only has 28 registered domains.

On Monday at around 10 p.m. Pacific time, North Korea’s nameserver – that contains information about all of the “.kp” websites – was misconfigured, allowing it to be accessed. This meant Matthew Bryant, a researcher, was able to access the domain names and some of the file data about the site.

Bryant dumped all of this on Github – a site that hosts computer code. It’s the first real look into the secret online world of the hermit state North Korea.

Some of the websites take a long time to load and some are inaccessible. Among the 28 sites listed is one called Air Koryo, a flight booking site, and one named Friend, presumably some sort of social network.

One website that has always been accessible outside of North Korea is the Korean Central News Agency – the state-run propaganda site.

H/T – Yahoo

Here’s a list of all the websites and what they are in case you can’t visit the link at the top:

• http://airkoryo.com.kp – Air Koryo. A flight ticket website.
• http://cooks.org.kp – Korean Dishes. Culinary website with recipes.
• http://friend.com.kp – Friend. Appears to be something similar to Yahoo and MSN.
• http://gnu.rep.kp – National Unity. A sort of religious group or well-being group.
• http://kass.org.kp – Korean Association of Social Scientists. Not sure, but I think it’s an education website for both school and adult education courses maybe.
• http://kcna.kp – Korean Central News Agency. Yet another news website.
• http://kiyctc.com.kp – Korean International Youth and Children’s Travel Company. I guess a travel company of both youth and children.
• http://knic.com.kp – Korean People Total Insurance Company. Insurance company.
• http://koredufund.org.kp – Korea Education Fund. Appears to be a charity to increase the quality of education.
• http://korelcfund.org.kp – Korea Elderly Care Fund. A charity for the elderly.
• http://korfilm.com.kp – KorFilms – Pyongang International Film Festival. The film website.
• http://ma.gov.kp – Maritime Administration of Korea. Laws of the water can be found here.
• http://masikryong.com.kp – currently can’t access
• http://naenara.com.kp – Naenara. – This is actually the “official” government site in the sense of a description of the country. It has plenty of news articles but it contains a decent amount of (tourist oriented?) information about the country (thanks /u/tinoh124 for the correction).
• http://nta.gov.kp – Korea Tourism. The Korean Tourism board, looks like you can get tours from here.
• http://portal.net.kp – currently can’t access
• http://rcc.net.kp – currently can’t access
• http://rep.kp – currently can’t access
• http://rodong.rep.kp – Rodong. Official news website. Click here to view the Rodong website in the user-friendly Western version, thanks again to /u/tinoh124 for this.
• http://ryongnamsan.edu.kp – Kim Il Sung University. – The university’s website.
• http://sdprk.org.kp – Sports Chosun. – The sports website.
• http://silibank.net.kp – currently can’t access
• http://star-co.net.kp – currently can’t access
• http://star-di.net.kp – currently can’t access
• http://star.co.kp – currently can’t access
• http://star.edu.kp – currently can’t access
• http://star.net.kp – currently can’t access
• http://vok.rep.kp – Voice Of Korea. A news website.

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