PYONGYANG North Korea is loosening some restrictions on foreign cell phones by allowing visitors to bring their own phones into the country. However, security regulations still prohibit mobile ...

It was also reported in the same year that North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un used an Android phone made by HTC. The country appeared less impressed with the Samsung-made Android devices given to ...

North Korea claims it has domestically developed phones like the Arirang 171 smartphone, but it is more likely the phones may have been imported from China, either as finished products or in parts ...

North Korea is known for restricting its citizens' access to cell phones. In 2008, the government banned the use of cell phones to prevent its residents from sharing news about a worsening food ...

North Korea just never picked up the phone. The phones themselves don’t look terribly sophisticated. While we don’t know what kind of hardware the North is using, ...

North Korea has allowed more citizens access to smartphones and an isolated intranet, offering residents who can afford it a new way to communicate and giving the dictatorship new opportunities to ...

North Korea appears to be purposefully cutting a communication link with South Korea as it ratchets up tensions by testing new weapons and denouncing ... North Korea Cuts Phone Link With South, ...

A smuggled phone has revealed the extreme extent of North Korea's censorship under Kim Jong Un, where everything South Korean is banned, phones autocorrect words, internet access is blocked, and ...

TOKYO—North Korea's booming cellphone market now counts more than 1 million subscribers, providing citizens with an increasingly potent channel for delivering accounts from the reclusive country ...