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A smuggled North Korean smartphone reveals how the regime censors information, including screenshotting users activities every five minutes

The phone, which was smuggled out of the country late last year by a Seoul-based media organization, Daily NK, and later obtained by the BBC, was programmed to censor certain language and record screenshots of the user’s activity. The smartphone does not have access to the internet as North Korea blocks information from outside the country.

According to a BBC report, the smartphone takes screenshots of the user’s actions every five minutes and saves them in a file the user can see but not open. Only the North Korean authorities can open the files, allowing them to review what users are looking at.

Popular South Korean words like “oppa,” which literally translates to big brother but has become South Korean slang for a boyfriend, are automatically replaced with the word “comrade.” Users also receive a warning; in this example, it said: “This word can only be used to describe your siblings.”

The Korean word for “South Korea” is also replaced with “puppet state.”

https://fortune.com/2025/06/04/north-korea-smartphone-censorship-screenshots-every-five-minutes/