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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
World
Benjamin Summer

North Koreans to face labour camps for removing surveillance tools from phones

Kim Jong-un has threatened three weeks in a labour camp and eye-watering fines for North Korean citizens who hack their state-approved smartphones.

The leader announced new laws after a new hack emerged allowing people remove state surveillance tools from Pyongyang’s copycat “iPhone” and grant access to websites from the outside world.

The phones currently only permit access to regime-approved websites and come with an app that monitors how the handset is used.

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