{"id":9135,"date":"2026-05-08T13:48:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T13:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/9135\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T13:48:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T13:48:38","slug":"north-korea-shows-off-own-brand-mobile-phones-bangkok-post-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/9135\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea shows off own-brand mobile phones Bangkok Post Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Domestically<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDomestically produced Jindallae mobile phones are displayed at the 24th Pyongyang Spring International Trade Fair at the Central Youth Hall in the North Korean capital on May 4, 2026. (Photo: Kim Won Jin\/AFP)\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

North Korea is welcoming foreign visitors and firms to a trade fair this week, showcasing homegrown products including the latest model of its Jindallae smartphone.<\/p>\n

North Korea has called Jindallae \u2014 \u201cazalea\u201d in Korean \u2014 a convenient way for citizens<\/a> to stay connected. The domestic<\/a> network, however, is strictly controlled.<\/p>\n

The devices<\/a>, which come in a range of colours and feature a large circular camera module with multiple lenses, have been on display at the Pyongyang Spring International Trade Fair, the country\u2019s largest.<\/p>\n

AFP images showed visitors browsing stalls at the event on Monday, with state media saying \u201cmore than 290 enterprises and companies\u201d from North Korea, Russia, China, Mongolia, Switzerland and Thailand were represented.<\/p>\n

Jindallae was first unveiled<\/a> in 2017, and the latest model appeared to be similar to the version released last year, according to South Korea\u2019s Yonhap news agency.<\/p>\n

The vast majority<\/a> of North Korea\u2019s 25 million people cannot access the global internet, with phones instead connecting to a highly restricted<\/a> national intranet<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Reporting by the BBC has suggested the phones can periodically<\/a> capture screenshots, which are then stored in hidden folders accessible to authorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Domestically produced Jindallae mobile phones are displayed at the 24th Pyongyang Spring International Trade Fair at the Central…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7003,7005,7002,4020,7006,7007,7004,7000,34,7001,129,2663],"class_list":["post-9135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pyongyang","tag-bangkok-post","tag-bangkok-post-learning","tag-bangkokpost","tag-jindallae","tag-learn-english","tag-learn-english-from-news","tag-learning","tag-mobile-technology","tag-north-korea","tag-north-korean-economy","tag-pyongyang","tag-pyongyang-spring-international-trade-fair"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}