North Korea traditionally has used Internet companies outside
its borders to connect its websites to the world. But technology
watchers noticed this month that a website for the official
Korean Central News Agency - KCNA - appeared to be operating
from an Internet address inside North Korea. KCNA is the first
from a group of about 1,000 Internet addresses that had been
set-aside for North Korea but never used. VOA spoke with Martyn
Williams, the Tokyo bureau chief for the IDG [International Data
Group] News Service. He covers technology issues in Japan and
South Korea. How have North Korea's Internet habits evolved?
Recently, what we found is that North Korea appears to have
started using the Internet and websites that actually are based
inside North Korea. For some time, there have been several North
Korean websites on the Internet, but most of those have been run
from servers in other countries, computers in China or computers
in Japan have been running these sites. A little under a year
ago, North Korea st