Google does not want to expand to North Korea

North Korea is the world's online map, the only country in the world, the Internet giant Google remains closed. But the U.S. multinational prefers not to the country. "First, the government would have to open the Internet to the public and activate before the question is whether there is in North Korea, a place for Google," Google's board chairman Eric Schmidt holds for a three-day visit with his Google team in Pyongyang .


Schmidt was serving on a supposedly humanitarian aid for detained U.S. citizen, attended three-day private tour of the former U.S. Governor Bill Richardson to North Korea. After her return from Schmidt gave its first opinion about this passage: He had found one for only a few accessible, highly regulated and controlled Internet in North Korea when he visited technical colleges, including the Korean Computer Center.

The country has indeed a 3-G network, which was established as a joint venture. It should not be Internet-enabled and it does not even open. There was supervised access to the Internet, which can be used only by the government, the military and technical universities. Anyone who can surf it is also monitored. In addition, North Korea pursuing a closed intranet system for the universities. The public has access to any online system. The popularization of the internet do not stand up for debate.

Positive fell to Schmidt: "North Koreans came to us, listened to us and asked many questions." The government was faced with the choice of whether they wanted to isolate their people and the economic development of the country. It is time for the government to do something. "Otherwise the country falls back only."