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Guitar Hero and Google Maps, DPRK style: a closer look at some North Korean apps

From getting directions around town to playing music, here's what to buy at a Pyongyang app store

Alek Sigley is a graduate student at Pyongyang’s Kim Il Sung University and runs the North Korea tour company Tongil Tours. You can read his first column for NK News here.

After introducing the North Korean app store in my last post, I’d like to now examine some of the apps I’ve purchased from it for my local tablet computer.

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