Permission to access the Internet remains very tightly restricted; however, there has been a growing IT industry and gradually increasing access of the Internet within North Korea [REF].
On 19 September 2016, North Korea's nameserver - that contains information about all of the ".kp" websites - was misconfigured, allowing researchers to access and publish[REF] the domain names and some of the file data about the site, including zone information for .kp,