Naenara is a

North Korea North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the northern half of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and borders China and Russia to the north at the Yalu River, Yalu (Amnok) an ...

intranet An intranet is a computer network for sharing information, easier communication, collaboration tools, operational systems, and other computing services within an organization, usually to the exclusion of access by outsiders. The term is used in ...

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developed by the Korea Computer Center for use of the national Kwangmyong intranet.

Design

Naenara is a modified version of

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and is distributed with the

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-based

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Red Star OS Red Star OS () is a North Korean Linux distribution, with development first starting in 1998 at the Korea Computer Center (KCC). History Prior to Red Star OS' release, computers in North Korea typically used modified versions of Microsoft ...

that North Korea developed due to licensing and security issues with

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Usage

Naenara can be used to browse approximately 1,000 to 5,500 websites in the national Kwangmyong intranet. Red Star OS and Naenara were developed by the Korea Computer Center that states on its web page that it seeks to develop Linux-based software for use. When Naenara is run, it tries to contact an IP address at http://10.76.1.11/. The default

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for the browser is Google Korea.

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