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North Korean leader Kim Jong-il considers computer illiterates the worst fools in the 21st century along with smokers and the tone-deaf, British weekly the Economist reported in its latest edition. Under the title ¡°Weird but Wired¡±, the magazine reports on Internet services in the North. ¡°In 2000, Kim Jong-il famously asked Madeleine Albright, then America's secretary of state, for her e-mail address,¡± the weekly recalls. According to the magazine, North Korea opened its own nationwide fiberoptic network called ¡°Kwangmyong¡± in 2000. But only several thousand people in North Korea have direct access to the worldwide Web, it said, which is off limits to the rest of North Koreans due to a firewall controlled by North Korea¡¯s Korea Computer Center.
(englishnews@chosun.com )
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