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Google CEO's Trip to North Korea, From Schmidt's Daughter's Blog

Categories: East Asia, North Korea, Arts & Culture, Freedom of Speech, International Relations, Technology

Google CEO Eric Schmidt visited North Korea last month and his daughter shared in her blog [1] what the delegation saw in the hermit kingdom. Some of highlights from the blog:

[describing the nation's top internet facility] Looks great, right? All this activity, all those monitors. […] One problem: No one was actually doing anything. A few scrolled or clicked, but the rest just stared[…]Not a head turn, no eye contact, no reaction to stimuli. They might as well have been figurines.