ICANN: North Korea to get Internet code this year

Updated Saturday, August 18, 2007 0:00 am TWN, SEOUL, AFP

ICANN: North Korea to get Internet code this year

North Korea is expected to register an Internet country address this year as the isolated communist state takes cautious steps toward global information technology, an official said Friday. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is likely to approve North Korea’s country domain “.kp” at a meeting in Los Angeles starting in October, Suh Jae-Chul, a board member, told AFP.

“ICANN is expected to approve North Korea’s country code top level domain as it did recently ‘.ps’ for Palestine and ‘.eu’ for the European Union,” Suh said. “This means that North Korea is becoming more active in engaging in Internet activities,” he said.

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