Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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North Korean smartphones look strangely familiar. WSJ’s Dasl Yoon and a former North Korean soldier examine one that was smuggled out of the world’s most reclusive nation. But beneath the familiar apps and features are hidden functions designed to monitor and control users.

Chapters:
0:00 Smuggled smartphone from North Korea
0:35 The functions
1:41 How the phones are used in North Korea
2:29 Surveillance and censorship tech
4:20 The all-seeing state

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