Kim will spot everything. The totalitarian smartphone scares its software

Screenshot every 5 minutes? Why not. The BBC reached the smartphone, which was smuggled from North Korea. At first glance, it looks like the first better phone with a touch screen. However, the agent shows that Orwell's vision was a pleasant walk compared to how dictatorship in combination with technology was linked to its citizens.

North Korea remains the most isolated country since the start of the Kim dynasty in 1948. And the most controlled. Fear, appropriate propaganda and inevitability that sooner or later it will seem is the basis of every dictatorship. You will not have to combat the opposition if it is not – such theses would be written in the textbook “How to keep a dictatorship? Learning at the weekend”, if it existed, of course. And although North Korean ways seem crumbling, it is impossible to deny them effectiveness.

The fact that the smartphone does not have access to the Internet is not surprising. After all, the Kim Jong Una regime would not allow such an oversight. However, one of the most surprising functions of a totalitarian smartphone, which BBC reached, was the automatic screenshot function every 5 minutes. The paintings went to the folder to which the user had no access, so he could not modify it in any way. In this way, the services can make sure that they did not pat the search in the search engine, no jokes were viewed, or nothing inappropriate was discussed (for the regime, of course).

The dictionary contains some interesting examples of language modifications. For example, the South Korean word “Oppa”, which literally means “older brother”, but is used as a slang term “boy”, is automatically replaced by the word “companion”. What's more, after using the “Oppa”, the phone threatens the user with a finger, displaying the warning:

This word can only be used to describe siblings.

In turn, the word “Nampan”, or South Korea, replaces the slogan “Puppet State”.

One more surprise when it comes to functionality – you cannot cover the face of the leader, e.g. in read articles. It must always be visible.

North Korean authorities have repeatedly applied repression against mobile phone users produced in China. Some of them were arrested, and from there to prisoner -of -war camps, where they were tortured, including hanging under the ceiling, electric shock and sexual assaults – reports Daily North Korea.

Kim Dzon Un punish his citizens without mercy. For watching South Korean media, even if they were only K-Pop concerts, even execution is threatened, and family and bystanders must see it thoroughly as a warning. Humanitarian organizations report that sometimes they are set in a queue to approach the deceased. It is also a crime to use South Korean phrases or even speak with such an accent.

This, however, does not stop the resistance. Apparently, each month to North Korea is smuggled from the southern, among others Micro-SD cards. In addition, some of the station send information across the border at low and medium radio frequencies. For now, however, due to the repression introduced, the regime wins the fight for souls. In addition, Donald Trump added his, or rather deducted, reducing the budgets of non -governmental organizations. In South Korea, the authorities behind smartphones already control all their citizens in all areas of life.

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