North Korea
Smartphone on Pyongyang metro - everyday life of commuters?
Sept. 11, 2017
A video showing the “state-of-the-art” Pyongyang metro, on which passengers read news via their smartphones, was aired through the North’s state-run Korean Central News Agency, Friday.In the KCNA video, a middle-aged man can be seen scrolling through Rodong Shinmun, the North’s official newspaper, on his smartphone. (Yonhap)Titles of the news articles are shown on the phone screen, in which the names Kim Jong-un and Kim Il-sung, the current leader and nation’s founder, respectively, are highligh