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North Korean tablet won’t give you Internet access, but it will play Angry Birds

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Tablets have made it to North Korea, but the Internet hasn’t.

A traveler to North Korea spotted The Samjiyon tablet at a trade show and showed off what it could do in the video below. The machine doesn’t have Internet access, but it can play Angry Birds, according to a research report from IDG.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.