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The Rodong Sinmun, the official newspaper of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea and one of the most important propaganda tools of the North Korean government, has launched a website.
The site was first reported on Thursday, but appears to have been officially launched the day before, on February 16, Kim Jong Il’s 69th birthday. The site’s DNS (Domain Name System) records, located at www.rodong.rep.kpwhich is required for public access to the server, first appeared on February 16th.
The website appears to contain the full text of the daily newspaper and news since January 1, 2011. The daily newspaper is also available as a color PDF file.
The website is hosted on the same server as the Korea Computer Center’s Naenara website and the Council on Foreign Cultural Relations home page. The server is believed to be located in Pyongyang.
Rodong Sinmun articles were previously available through Uriminzokkiri, a China-based website that provides official news and commentary from Pyongyang, but North Korea researchers may be very interested in PDF copies of the daily newspapers.
The website is the latest in a series of new homepages launched by Pyongyang in the past six months. North Korea first gained full access to the Internet in early 2010, and the country restarted its national domain name .kp earlier this year.
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