Kim Jong Un ’s hip , young reign over North Korea continues today as the peregrine operator Koryolink officially turn on its datum services , opening the logic gate to Instagram , Foursquare , and Twitter , among other social apps .
In lawful North Korean expressive style , though , only foreigners will be capable to reach the web , leave locals to keep burnt sienna - tone their hebdomadal meal in their heads for the time being . Still , this is a major step frontwards for the notoriously cyberspace - restrictive country , and this may or may not ( but probably not ) be due , in part , toa recent visit by Google CEO Eric Schmidtover this very topic .
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Jean H. Lee , head of the Associated Press bureau in Korea , get off out the first North Korean tweet ( that we ’re aware of , there may have been others ) from a mobile equipment .
My first tweet using#Koryolink ’s new mobile#Internetservice . Hello humans from comms center in#Pyongyang .
— Jean H. Lee ( @newsjean)February 25 , 2013
The image at the top soon followed as the ( also likely ) first ever Instagram , which Lee described as a sign “ receive nuclear exam scientist . ” And a beautiful welcome it is . Whether the gloomy filter is the work of “ Earlybird ” or the body politic ’s collective , crippling unhappiness , however , remains yet to be determine . [ @newsjeanviaThe Next Web ]
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