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This Smartphone Smuggled Out of North Korea Is Absolutely Wild

North Korean Autocorrect North Korea's supreme leader, Kim Jong Un, is tightening the leash to stop Western media from crossing the border in the form of USB sticks and SD cards. As the BBC reports, consuming foreign media is punishable by imprisonment and even death within the dictatorship's borders. In 2023, Kim even made it a crime for people to use South Korean phrases or speak in a South Korean accent. It's an Orwellian degree of absolutist control over the freedom of speech that extends to even smartphone usage. A North Korean phone that was smuggled out of the country […]

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