"Wary North Korea struggles to stay afloat in info age."- Felicia Padilla

In North Korea there are essentially no internet freedoms given to users. However, the country's internet usage is increasing. North Korea purposefully keeps its internet users away from information regarding the "outside world." However, they now realize they must enter the "information  age" in order for them to survive in the global economy. North Korea has released information regarding an intranet called "bright." The students who do use computers spend their time studying. They don't go on facebook or twitter. If they do happen to roam away from their studying and enter in a chat room or their email, they are being monitored. When students do go on their computers they aren't roaming the internet, they are using "bright." Most North Koreans don't even have access to internet. North Korea's goal is to "reap the benefits of information technology, while keeping out potentially corrosive foreign influences." "Still, some experts believe that as more North Koreans become familiar with the benefits of going online — a trend that would seem inevitable if North Korea is to keep afloat in the information age — it will become increasingly difficult for the ruling regime to keep the IT dam from bursting". This is really interesting because here in America having internet access is considered normal. Our Government prides itself in how much internet access the people have, which is completely the opposite from North Korea.
http://news.yahoo.com/wary-nkorea-struggles-stay-afloat-age-073211240.html