"The Web as a pawn in the power game"
Reporters Without Borders
13 March 2014
Ranked 2nd last in annual press freedom index
Reporters Without Borders
1 February 2014
Possession of DVDs, flash drives and Chinese phones harshly punished
Human Rights Watch
22 January 2014
Ranked 196th in annual global media freedom report
Freedom House
1 May 2013
"Intense state indoctrination and repression preclude free exercise of religion as well as academic freedom"
Freedom House
16 January 2013
Permanent Associated Press bureau opened in Pyongyang in January 2012
Reporters Without Borders
2 May 2012
Reporters Without Borders
29 March 2012
Government opponents distribute "stealth USBs containing news about democracy and human rights, and designed to appeal to the country’s dissidents, students and intellectual elites"
Reporters Without Borders
12 March 2012
"No grounds for optimism"
Reporters Without Borders
26 January 2012
"Government uses fear - generated mainly by threats of forced labor and public executions - to prevent dissent"
Human Rights Watch
23 January 2012