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We've got hold of this phone that was
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smuggled out of North Korea last year
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and it shows some of the surprising
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lengths the regime is now going to to
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censor information. North Korea blocks
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information from outside the country and
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these phones don't have access to the
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internet. But South Korean TV shows are
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being smuggled over the border to try to
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show North Koreans how rich South Korea
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is and how much freedom people have here
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to try to undermine the regime. Now, Kim
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Jong-un has banned these shows. And from
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this phone, you can see that he's now
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also blocking people from using popular
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South Korean words. Look what happens
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when I type in the word oppa. This word
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literally means older brother in Korean,
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but people here in South Korea now use
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it as slang to refer to their boyfriends
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When I enter it, it automatically
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changes to the word comrade. And I get
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this warning. It says, "This word can
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only be used to describe your siblings."
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Now look what happens if I type in the
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word for South Korea, which is Namhan.
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It automatically changes it to puppet
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state, which is what the North calls the
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South. In this folder, we can see that
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the phone is taking a screenshot every
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five minutes or so. But the user can't
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open these files. Only the authorities
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can. So they can see when people are
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looking at or sharing things that
