Google exec gets look at Nkoreans surfing Net
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January 9, 2013, Wednesday
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STUDENTS at North Korea's premier university showed Google's executive chairman yesterday how they look for information online: They Google it.
Google's Eric Schmidt got a first look at North Korea's limited Internet usage when an American delegation he and former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson are leading visited a computer lab at Kim Il Sung University in Pyongyang.
Schmidt, who is the highest-profile US business executive to visit North Korea since leader Kim Jong Un took power a year ago, has not spoken publicly about the reasons behind the four-day trip to North Korea.
Schmidt chatted with students working on HP desktop computers at an "e-library" at the university named after North Korea founder Kim Il Sung. One student showed Schmidt how he accesses reading materials from Cornell University online.
"He's actually going to a Cornell site," Schmidt told Richardson after peering at the URL.
Jared Cohen, director of the Google Ideas, asked a student how he searches for information online. The student clicked on Google - "That's where I work!" Cohen said - and then asked to be able to type in his own search: "New York City." Cohen clicked on a Wikipedia page for the city, pointing at a photo and telling the student, "That's where I live."
Librarian Kim Su Hyang said students at the university have had Internet access since the laboratory opened in April 2010.
University students at Kim Chaek University of Science and Technology and the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology also have carefully monitored Internet access. Computers at Pyongyang's main library at the Grand People's Study house are linked to a domestic Intranet service that allows them to read state-run media online and access a trove of reading materials.
North Koreans with computers at home can also sign up for the Intranet service.
Google's Eric Schmidt got a first look at North Korea's limited Internet usage when an American delegation he and former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson are leading visited a computer lab at Kim Il Sung University in Pyongyang.
Schmidt, who is the highest-profile US business executive to visit North Korea since leader Kim Jong Un took power a year ago, has not spoken publicly about the reasons behind the four-day trip to North Korea.
Schmidt chatted with students working on HP desktop computers at an "e-library" at the university named after North Korea founder Kim Il Sung. One student showed Schmidt how he accesses reading materials from Cornell University online.
"He's actually going to a Cornell site," Schmidt told Richardson after peering at the URL.
Jared Cohen, director of the Google Ideas, asked a student how he searches for information online. The student clicked on Google - "That's where I work!" Cohen said - and then asked to be able to type in his own search: "New York City." Cohen clicked on a Wikipedia page for the city, pointing at a photo and telling the student, "That's where I live."
Librarian Kim Su Hyang said students at the university have had Internet access since the laboratory opened in April 2010.
University students at Kim Chaek University of Science and Technology and the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology also have carefully monitored Internet access. Computers at Pyongyang's main library at the Grand People's Study house are linked to a domestic Intranet service that allows them to read state-run media online and access a trove of reading materials.
North Koreans with computers at home can also sign up for the Intranet service.
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