Always eager to prove their superiority to their Western enemies, the reputation of exaggerating extraordinary claims and its achievements in the Northern Korean government is the prestige. When it comes to technology, North Korea is particularly suitable for avoiding the innovations of many of its homes. The ruling ideology of the country demands self-sufficiency of the old, Korean nation. In this spirit, these inventions work as a publicity tool, which helps the government to deceive its citizens that their country is on equal technological footing with the rest of the world. However, by looking a bit closer, someone will find that "Innovation" in most of these homes is generally nothing compared to low quality copies of foreign products.
1. Arirang Smartphone
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Arirang, the name of Korean folk song, is the first attempt of North Korea to make its own smartphone. The device announced in 2013 was reported to be fully built within the country by North Korean state news. Supreme Leader Kim Jong Yun, personally inspected the phone to help promote it. The phone is running on a modified form of the Android operating system, but the actual functionality of the device is suspicious, because North Korea has no external internet access. The country's only cell service provider, Coriolink, allows only access to a small amount of approved domestic calls and websites on the country's "intranet" service. The design of the phone itself has been called into question. Experts have seen the similarity of design to the low end Chinese Uniscope U1201 smartphone (which you can see for yourself in the picture above). There is speculation that Arurang can actually be manufactured in China and sent to North Korean "factories", so that the government can take credit for technology.
2. Junma Luxury Car
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Junja is a joint venture between a politically active South Korean Church and North Korean government-owned business, which is a knockoff luxury car manufactured by Pyongwa Motors. Pyongwa Motors specially owns automotive production and sale rights in North Korea and it is the only business that is known to run billboard ads in the country. The lineup of Junja Pyonghwa has a top-of-the-line "luxury" car. This sedan is based on the South Korean car, which is a copy of the Mercedes-Benz E-Class from the mid-1990s. Although the most powerful Pyonghwa car, Junema's 197-HP engine pales in comparison to the modern sports cars. The average North Korean citizen is being restricted from driving, the oldest is probably for high ranking government officials. Production figures for Zuma are completely unknown, but the total car production of Pyongwa Motors is estimated to be around 1,000 units per year. Surprisingly, the company exports some cars to Vietnam, so if you are eager to get one of these "luxury" rides, you might be able to buy one there!
3. Type 73 Light Machine Gun
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The Type 73 Light machine gun is one of the only home-made gun designs used by the North Korean Army, which primarily supplies arms to its soldiers with copies of old Soviet weapons. Type 73 itself is a strange patchwork of the eastern block weapon, in which Soviet PK resembles machine gun and feeding system of Czechoslovakian viez.25. Type 73 starts with a double feed system, which means that it can either fire a top-mounted box magazine or ammunition belt. Weapon plays a wooden handle and a buttstock, which is a lot of cry from the most modern machine guns, with light plastic composite accessories. Surprisingly, guns have been seen in the hands of terrorists in Africa and the Middle East. During the Iran-Iraq war, Iran received several weapons from North Korea. Later, weapons were used by Pro-Asad forces in the Syrian Civil War and Houthian rebels in Yemen. Many weapons used in these conflicts can actually be of Iranian origin. After receiving initial shipment from North Korea, Iranian factories made their own copies of the design on a large scale, which help explain the wide spread of Type 73. To copy a copy, the weapon starts catching surprisingly well.
4. Hwasong-10 Missile
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Havasang-10, also known as Masudan, is one of the latest North Korean ballistic missile innovations. Ability to reach American military bases in the Pacific region, Havasong-10 has been used in many controversial missile tests, which has increased tension in the region. Incompatible, North Korea was not able to develop this technique completely independently, which was dependent on support for friendly communist nations. Work on the missile began in the 1990s, when North Korea contracted Russian engineers to help build missiles based on the design of older engineers. The first two tests of the new missile failed to launch, and in the third test only a short distance journey took place. Fourth Test In fact, the launch pad exploded, it is believed that launch site personnel were killed. As a result of subsequent trials, the distance of the flight increased in relation to the United States military officers, the missile could be used to target Guam.
5. Kwangmyong Intranet
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As mentioned earlier in this article, North Korean citizens can not access the global internet independently, but rather are limited to a small amount of government-approved domains. This national intranet service, known as Kwangmeong, is accessible only within the country. Like North Korea, Kwangmeong is very confidential, but the small amount of information available about the system shows that it is largely limited. Intranet is mainly used by libraries, universities and other government organizations. Approximately 1,000 to 5,000 websites on Kwangmei-all are government-controlled. Out of these websites, you will meet General State News Agencies, which meets with a special section on "Activities of Just Supreme Leader" website, which reports recent works of Kim Jong Yun. In addition to publicity and official business, Kwangmeong is equipped with its own search engine, social media site and messaging service. There are some unique features in the system that can surprise regular internet users. A picture of a poster in a North Korean library taken by a tourist reveals that the website addresses are completely made up of numbers. This numerical format, the IP address of a website, is used by computers to route web traffic, but is often supplemented by a word-based domain name for easy access by people. Just imagine when you want to go to Listverse, type in a string of numbers. Another unique feature of Kwangmang websites is that names written by Great Leader Kim Jong Il and Kim Il Sung should be codec for 20% larger than the boulder and the rest of the surrounding text.
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