NKorea okays mobile net for foreigners

Foreigners will be allowed to take their mobile phones into North Korea now. Source: Supplied

NORTH Korea will soon allow foreigners to tweet, Skype and surf the internet from their mobile phones, iPads and other mobile devices in its second relaxation of controls on communications in recent weeks.

However, North Korean citizens will not have access to the mobile internet service to be offered by provider Koryolink within the next week.

Koryolink, a joint venture between Korea Post & Telecommunications Corporation and Egypt's Orascom Telecom Media and Technology Holding SAE, informed foreign residents in Pyongyang on Friday that it will launch a third generation, or 3G, mobile Internet service no later than March 1.

The announcement comes just weeks after North Korea began allowing foreigners to bring their own mobile phones into the country.

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