19 Jul 2004

Naenara: DPR Korea Web Portal
Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), North Korea/Germany
Supplied note: "www.kcckp.net [est. May 2004 - ed.] is based in Germany, and links to information on North Korean politics, tourism and trade, along with its official media and 'real time' music and movies decorate the home page. The Web site, available in English and Korean. - bpj."
Self-description: "Welcome to WWW.KCCKP.NET - DPRK [...] The visitors to our site can gather deep and wide information about Korea. First of all it is possible to know the clear and consistent point of view of DPRK on the current international problems. And it will be helpful for you to know the real situation of Korea."
Site contents: Shopping Mall; Contact Us; KCNA; The Pyongyang Times; Korea Today; Korea; Foreign Trade; Politics, Tourism, Foreign Trade, Arts, Publication, History/Customs, Korea is One, IT Industry, Naenara Special Events, Top News, News from Naenara, Music, Korean Movies, Fine Art Pieces.
[Apart from the news (and most prolific martial music) the rest of the information on this pilot Web portal is accessible only to registered visitors. The site appears to be pretty good at extricating personal data from its users - ed.]
URL http://www.kcckp.net/
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]
Link reported by: Bob Pyke Jr. (repyke[use"@"]infionline.net)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide/News
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Govt.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Interesting
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30