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Korea&#8217;s new smartphone not yet available in stores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korea&#8217;s new smartphone, the \u201cMadusan,\u201d is not yet available in stores, Daily NK has learned.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NK Economy, a South Korean news website specializing in North Korean IT news, reported recently that the new smartphone was announced through this year&#8217;s second issue of \u201cForeign Trade,\u201d a North Korean magazine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a phone conversation with Daily NK on Tuesday, a source in Pyongyang said the Madusan smartphone was released this year to mark late North Korean leader Kim Jong Il\u2019s birthday on Feb. 16, as well as the 110th birthday of late North Korean founder Kim Il Sung on Apr. 15.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cDevelopment of the mobile phone began in 2020,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korea had released two or three new smartphones per year from 2017 to 2019. However, no new phones were released over the last two years because the closure of the borders due to COVID-19 ended much of the country&#8217;s international trade.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korea has clearly faced difficulties releasing new products, yet it released a new smartphone to help commemorate Kim Jong Il\u2019s and Kim Il Sung\u2019s birthdays.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Madusan is a \u201crevolutionary battle site\u201d in the Anju district of South Pyongan Province. North Korea promotes it as the \u201csecond Paekdusan,\u201d and has actively used the site to idolize the \u201cPaekdu bloodline.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Madusan smartphone is not available in stores, according to the source.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe phone isn\u2019t sold in information centers or service centers yet,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s not a device ordinary people can buy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cForeign Trade\u201d is a magazine that introduces North Korean factories and exports to the outside world. North Korea revealed to overseas readers that it had released a new smartphone, but inside North Korea, the phone does not appear to be on sale.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korea appears intent on demonstrating to the outside world that despite economic troubles and sanctions, the country continues to develop smartphones as normal, and that other economic activities are trouble-free as well. However, given the phone has yet to hit stores, the product does not appear to be in mass production.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI don\u2019t know how much the phone costs since it\u2019s not in stores,\u201d said the source. \u201cHowever, people in the information centers say it\u2019s around USD 750.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cSince it&#8217;s not on sale, few people are seeking it out,\u201d he continued, adding, \u201cBut if they begin to sell it, there\u2019s a class of people who will wait to buy one \u2014 that is, people in Pyongyang and Sinuiju, cadres, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">donju<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and officials with the unified command on non-socialist and anti-socialist behavior.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ascertaining the precise specifications of the phone is difficult given its not currently for sale. The source told Daily NK that the new phone boasts much improved security, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">takes good pictures and has plenty of storage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThey say another feature is that [users] can\u2019t delete their viewing history,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s to prevent currently available circumvention programs from working.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This suggests that North Korean authorities have taken measures to block users from viewing unapproved programs or files.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korean smartphones record all documents, images and applications users access. Users cannot store or install unapproved files, either.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, some North Koreans have developed programs that delete the viewing history from smartphones or allow users to use unapproved applications, videos or files.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Translated by David Black. Edited by Robert Lauler.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Please direct any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@uni-media.net.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/20220621-3\/\"><em>Read in Korean<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea&#8217;s new smartphone, the \u201cMadusan,\u201d is not yet available in stores, Daily NK has learned.\u00a0 NK Economy, a South Korean news website specializing in North Korean IT news, reported recently that the new smartphone was announced through this year&#8217;s second issue of \u201cForeign Trade,\u201d a North Korean magazine. 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