Article written by 2009 Abe Journalism Fellow Robert Boynton based on his project “Abduction: North Korea’s Kidnappings of South Korean and Japanese Citizens.”

To smuggle facts into or out of North Korea is to risk imprisonment and even execution. Yet today, aided by a half-dozen stealthy media organizations outside the country, citizen-journalists are using technologies new and old to break the regime’s iron grip on information. Will the truth set a nation free?

Publication Details

Title
North Korea’s Digital Underground
Authors
Boynton, Robert S.
Publisher
The Atlantic Monthly
Publish Date
April 2011
Citation
Boynton, Robert S., North Korea's Digital Underground (The Atlantic Monthly, April 2011).
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