The Phones In Addition To The Imac Of Kim Jong-Un

Last week, Democratic People's Republic of Korea said that it entered a "state of war" amongst neighboring South Korea. According to a written report from the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) this includes a threat to "dissolve" the the States mainland too.

On Friday, March 29, KCNA also released unopen to pictures of the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, giving a rare hold back at unopen to of his communications equipment:

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un presides over an urgent functioning meeting
at the Supreme Command inward Pyongyang, March 29, 2013.
(Photo: KCNA through Reuters)

Quite surprisingly nosotros consider that at the correct side of the table, there's an aluminum unibody iMac reckoner (with a corded keybord in addition to mouse). This reckoner is made past times the American manufacturer Apple in addition to is an iconic capitalist lifestyle item.

If this isn't a imitation remake, it's a chip foreign that nosotros consider this reckoner here, because there's a total U.S. embargo for exporting products to North Korea. Probably the iMac came inward from China, the entirely ally of the communist republic.

The whole organisation looks real much similar propaganda, in addition to nosotros tin dubiety whether the iMac is real functional: amongst a unopen hold back nosotros tin consider that the yellowish ethernet cable lies disconnected side past times side to it.

At the left side of the tabular array in that place are 3 white cry upwards sets (no reddish one!). These phones seem to last the same equally the 1 nosotros tin consider inward the motion-picture present below, which looks similar a quite ordinary business office phone:

Kim Jong-un smoking a cigaratte inward an empty looking launch command center,
later Pyongyang successfully launched a satellite into space

Earlier inward March, Democratic People's Republic of Korea already disconnected various hotlines amongst South Korea. One hotline, which is maintained past times the international Red Cross in addition to runs through the truce hamlet of Panmunjom, was cutting off on March 11. This also happened amongst unopen to other hotline, which connects to the US-led United Nations Command at the border.

On March 27, Democratic People's Republic of Korea also cutting off a military machine hotline amongst South Korea, that allows cross-border go to the jointly run Kaesong industrial complex inward the North. This hotline, which genuinely consists of iv cry upwards lines, is used to communicate almost the daily cross-border traffic of almost 900 workers in addition to cargo traveling dorsum in addition to forth to the Kaesong complex.

Now in that place is nevertheless 1 active hotline left (consisting of 3 telephone lines), linking the civil aviation regime of North in addition to South Korea.


Sources in addition to Links
- Reconstruction: North Korea Cuts Off the Remaining Military Hot Lines With South Korea
- Article inward Dutch: Kim Jong-Un institute wereldoorlog op verouderde iMac