Anti-gambling and anti-vice: North Korea formally blocked Twitter and Facebook-North Korea, Facebook,Twitter-IT information

According to foreign media reports, North Korea officially announced that it will "over time" shield Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and Korea's Web site. In addition, related to gambling and "adult" sites have been blocked.

At present, only very few North Koreans have access to the Internet. Under normal circumstances, they can only browse the isolated from the outside world, the Government approved the internal network. However, foreigners have been able to almost no apparent limits to surf, though their Internet activities are likely to have been behind the monitor.

Notice also said anyone who tried to crack these sites in order to "improper" way to access them or from their "anti-Republic of data", according to law to be punished. But the announcement did not say what specific penalties.

North Korea has more than 2 million people use mobile phones, but few can connect to the Internet is limited to officials, technical personnel or other person approved by the special and often is under strict supervision by the Internet.

By contrast, Korea is one of the most fanatical of the Internet world, but also banned in the country visit website is considered adult content websites.

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据国外媒体报道，朝鲜正式宣布将在“一段时间内”屏蔽Facebook、YouTube、Twitter和韩国的网站。另外，涉及赌博和“性与成人”的网站已被封杀。

目前，只有极少数朝鲜人能访问互联网。通常情况下，他们只能浏览一个与外界隔离、政府批准的内部网络。但是，此前外国人一直能够几乎不受明显限制地在网上冲浪，虽然他们的互联网活动很有可能受到幕后监视。

公告还表示，任何人谁试图破解这些网站，以“不正当”的方式访问它们或传播来自它们的“反共和国数据”，都将根据朝鲜法律受到惩罚。但公告没有说明具体惩罚是什么。

目前朝鲜有200万多人使用手机，但能上网的极少数人仅限于官员、技术人员或其他获得特别批准的人，并且通常是在严密的监督下才能上网。

相比之下，尽管韩国是世界上对互联网最狂热的国家之一，但该国也禁止访问朝鲜网站以及被政府认为是成人内容的各种网站。