Naenara is a
North Korea
North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the northern half of the Korean Peninsula and shares borders with China and Russia to the north, at the Yalu (Amnok) and T ...
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intranet web browser
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software
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developed by the
Korea Computer Center __NOTOC__
The Korea Computer Center (KCC) is the North Korean government information technology research center. It was founded on 24 October 1990. KCC, which administered the .kp country code top-level domain until 2011, employs more than 1,000 p ...
for use of the national
Kwangmyong intranet. It is developed from a version of
Mozilla Firefox and is distributed with the
Linux
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-based
operating system
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Time-sharing operating systems schedule tasks for efficient use of the system and may also i ...
Red Star OS
Red Star OS () is a North Korean Linux distribution, with development first starting in 1998 at the Korea Computer Center (KCC). Prior to its release, computers in North Korea typically used Red Hat Linux and later switched to a modified Windows ...
that North Korea developed due to licensing and security issues with
Microsoft Windows.
Design
Naenara is a modified version of
Mozilla Firefox. Red Star OS and Naenara were developed by the
Korea Computer Center __NOTOC__
The Korea Computer Center (KCC) is the North Korean government information technology research center. It was founded on 24 October 1990. KCC, which administered the .kp country code top-level domain until 2011, employs more than 1,000 p ...
that states on its web page that it seeks to develop Linux-based software for use.
Naenara can be used to browse approximately 1,000 to 5,500 websites in the national
Kwangmyong intranet.
When Naenara is run, it tries to contact an IP address at
http://10.76.1.11/.
The default
search engine for the browser is Google Korea.
See also
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Samjiyon tablet computer
The Samjiyon tablet computer () is a North Korean Android tablet computer developed by the Multimedia Technology Research Institute of the Korea Computer Center. It is the first North Korean tablet able to receive television broadcasts.2013/08/02 ...
References
External links
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Computing and society
Internet in North Korea
Linux web browsers