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Tuesday 23 August 2016

North Korea launches its own version of Netflix!

North Korea launches its own version of Netflix!

Although the state of North Korea are among the countries most closed in the world at all, in addition to the modest infrastructure of electronic but it does not cease to surprise at the technical level, and the latest news relating to such different media revealed that the Asian country is preparing to launch a platform similar to b "Netflix".
International media pointed out that the state television in North Korea, "Korea Central Television" announced last week the launch of a new service to broadcast live video on-demand on the Internet, and is a service that will be adapted course of giant this area, the US company Netflix, which was earlier this year, it has announced the availability of its service to broadcast live in most parts of the world with the exception of a few countries, including North Korea, of course, after it was Netflix previously confined only in North America and some European countries.

The new service in North Korea will carry the name "Manbang" and will offer its users a variety of documentaries and propaganda produced by the State of North Korea and aimed at strengthening the North Korean citizen association under his leadership, and of course it is impossible to provide Western contents due to the hostile policy pursued by the state North Korea against the West.

But the more significant impediment remains before this new service in North Korea is the weakness of the Internet in the country and large it controls, where Amnesty International estimates "Amnesty" indicate that out of the 25.2 million North Koreans it is only less than 3 million have mobile phones, and the number more for those who are able to access the Internet service declines.


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