Intra Net News Today

Listening to music and playing games on her new phone, including one that looks an awful lot like angry birds. do you like sharing photos with your friends? >> yeah. >> do you like taking selfies? >> yeah. >> thats good. i like yours better. north koreans can seasnd text messages, read the scores. one they they cannot do is connect to the nt net. they can only connect to an intra net, completely monitored. >> do you have anything like google? >> yes, we do. we have our own data search system. ou...

Listening to music and playing games on her new phone, including one that looks an awful lot like angry birds. >> do you like sharing photos with your friends? >> translator: yeah. >> what -- do you like taking selfies? >> translator: yeah. >> thats good. i like yours better. north koreans can send text messages, read the news, check the latest scores. one thing most cannot do, connect to the internet. they can only access a state-controlled intra net, completely monitored and sense yord. >> do ...

Most of the totalan regimes where theres some countries weve been to, even the former soviet union, the pre-internet days and there was communication and travel back and forth. this is the most isolated place in the world in terms of any kind of communication. when i was there and talking to people, aside from people in the foreign ministry who had tours of duty in beijing, there were few people who knew anything about the outside world. they had something called intra net, but they are disconne...

Whether the u.s. took down the web in north korea. it is worth noting only the regimes leader, kim jong-un and a very small number of people among the countrys elite have access to the internet. a slightly larger group of privileged north koreans can see a tightly controlled intra net. joining us to talk about the developments this hour, gordon chang, a foreign affairs columnist and author. i want to get down to the american people going to see these movies in theaters. is there a threat? the fb...

>> that was awful. >> 90 years young. >> john, here is my feeling. grandma lacks a filter. says inappropriate things. should she be on twitter? >> it was made for her obviously. they have -- young people complain that they are wasting too much time on twitter. i think only old people should be on. they have time for social media and we dont. >> i feel, however, tomhey are e an intra net. not an internet. it cant leave a thousand people. i worry they will be financially taken vapg. i have a theor...