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North Korea's internet only has 28 websites the secretive country accidentally opened access for the world to see the websites hosted on its servers it appears that a tech administrator made a mistake because access to the list of sites has been blocked before a researcher in the u.s. caught the data while running a project and he dumped it on the site github revealing that there are only 28 registered domains for dot KP some screen grabs of the sites were shared on reddit it's the first look into North Korea's secretive online world among the site's listed include one for the state airline Air Koryo as well as sites for education public organizations News sports movies and cooking there's also a film festival going on now these websites are pretty basic and they're slow to load but there are technically more than 28 websites you see there are more sites within the country's closed-off intranet it's a local network of sites on private networks similar to a corporate network that's walled off we know a little bit about it thanks to reports from blogs like North Korea tech org also keep in mind North Korea servers are not the most stable the country's entire internet went offline at late 2014 and what appeared to be a denial of service attack that's it for this tech news update I'm Bridget Carey you can stay on top of the biggest stories at cnet.com slash update you