{"id":786739,"date":"2026-07-27T05:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T05:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/786739\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T05:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T05:34:09","slug":"see-what-its-like-to-use-a-north-korean-smartphone-under-kim-jong-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/786739\/","title":{"rendered":"See what it\u2019s like to use a North Korean smartphone under Kim Jong Un"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"FTMSWDND5ZDXBH4BYQANK3H5ZY\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">SEOUL \u2014 People in North Korea can\u2019t access the internet. But that hasn\u2019t stopped a meaningful share of them from buying smartphones.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"LDICCD5CPRDZFDWM64K6DI6BWQ\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The Washington Post, with the help of Martyn Williams, a North Korean technology specialist, has gained access to two of the country\u2019s latest smartphones, which offer a remarkable window into daily life in one of the most reclusive countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEOUL \u2014 People in North Korea can\u2019t access the internet. But that hasn\u2019t stopped a meaningful share of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":786740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[165,74],"class_list":["post-786739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-mobile","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=786739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/786740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}