North Korea to allow mobile Internet for foreigners
PTI: Pyongyang, Feb 22 2013, 14:21 IST
Korea is equipped for broadband Internet, only a small, approved segment of the population has access to the World Wide Web.
During a visit to Pyongyang early last month, Google's executive chairman pressed the North Koreans to expand access to the Internet. Eric Schmidt noted that it would be "very easy" for North Korea to offer Internet on Koryolink's fast-expanding 3G cellphone network.
"As the world becomes increasingly connected, the North Korean decision to be virtually isolated is very much going to affect their physical world and their economic growth," he wrote in a Jan 20 blog post after returning to the United States.
"It will make it harder for them to catch up economically. It is their choice now, and in my view, it's time for them to start, or they will remain behind."
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