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Nothing new here: North Korea shackles Internet

An AFP newswire article, via Yahoo! News, reports that:

Now aged 12, Chun is at the tip of the spear in the Stalinist state's charge down the information superhighway.

"I don't play computer games because I must study hard," said Chun, one of the lucky 100 students recruited to the school each year from more than 5,000 applicants.

Chun is one of a small number of North Koreans who have a computer at home.

But there is one hitch for Chun and his fellow geeks -- no Internet.

North Korea is the world's most isolated country and works hard to remain so -- keeping so-called spiritual pollution from subverting its socialist system.

posted by Fergie @ 10/20/2005 10:52:00 AM