Yeah, it's really quite frightening that a first-world country like Australia is going the route they are. Not that the US hasn't made gestures in the same direction, but Aussie seems to be following through with it.
I believe it's only the US & EU embargoing North Korea.
China has the strongest relations with North Korea -- and would be enough of a source for anything.
And since North Korea seems to have figured out nuclear weapons, early-90s-style walled-garden dial-up-networking, like Prodigy/Compuserve/AOL, shouldn't be too hard.
Regardless my absolute disgust for any sort of censorship, I must admit that it would be quite interesting to look, through a sociologist-like point of view, how a whole nation has developed (or not developed) without any string attached to the rest of the world, to know what the people there are thinking and what's their idea of the rest of the world. Too bad it's almost impossible to get there and roam around for a western citizen.
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[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 49.9 ms ] threadBut please remember that there is absolutely no comparison between the state of anything in North Korea and Australia.
China has the strongest relations with North Korea -- and would be enough of a source for anything.
And since North Korea seems to have figured out nuclear weapons, early-90s-style walled-garden dial-up-networking, like Prodigy/Compuserve/AOL, shouldn't be too hard.
Here's a great photo essay for anyone else fascinated by this: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mytripsmypics/sets/721576048127...
and here some other travel journals: http://www.blogjam.com/north-korea/