Out of 7,000 Internet Readers of This Blog Today, Exactly Zero Came From North Korea and Precisely One From China
A Brief Data Report Addressing the Thousands of Speculative News Stories in Recent Days on the March Towards an IT Revolution by Pyongyang and a Commitment to a Free Press In Beijing
By Nate Thayer
In case anyone was confused about censorship of, or access, the internet In North Korea, I received 7,113 page views on this blog so far today from 91 countries. More than 75% of those visitors came to read stories I had posted on North Korea.
There were precisely zero people who visited from North Korea.
And perhaps more interestingly, there was exactly 1 visitor from China. Unless one includes “Taiwan, Province of China”, which had 12 visitors, or Hong Kong, which had 44, or Macao which had 3.
South Korea, or better known as the Republic of Korea, had 141 visitors.
There were more readers from the “Palestinian Territory, Occupied” with 2, Guernsey (1), Senegal (2) Liberia (2), Guam (2), Iraq (6), Republic of Moldova (3), Afghanistan (9), and Slovenia (21) than there were from China, a country with one quarter of the world population which shares a land border with North Korea, and poses major strategic, security, economic, foreign policy, and political policy issues for Beijing and the citizenry of the People’s Republic.
Either the Chinese people have particularly shrewd and discriminating literary tastes, or their leaders are fucking around with internet access from the rest of the world on issues that, anywhere else, would be a given as a matter of public interest
Here is a breakdown of the countries from whence visitors to this blog came from today:
Country Views
United States 3,965
Germany 830
United Kingdom 394
India 338
France 316
Canada 287
Australia 194
Singapore 165
Republic of Korea 141
Japan 110
Switzerland 103
Thailand 77
Austria 66
Cambodia 55
Finland 53
Belgium 51
Netherlands 47
Norway 45
Hong Kong 44
Indonesia 34
Romania 34
New Zealand 27
Philippines 25
Greece 22
Slovenia 21
Mexico 20
Portugal 19
Turkey 18
Brazil 18
Ireland 18
Czech Republic 18
Sweden 17
Denmark 16
United Arab Emirates 15
Italy 15
Sri Lanka 15
Spain 14
Malaysia 14
Taiwan, Province of China 12
Poland 12
Afghanistan 9
Chile 8
Russian Federation 7
Viet Nam 7
Qatar 7
Bangladesh 7
Israel 7
Zimbabwe 6
South Africa 6
Bosnia and Herzegovina 6
Iraq 6
Saudi Arabia 6
Egypt 5
Estonia 5
Costa Rica 5
Kuwait 5
Mongolia 4
Albania 4
Luxembourg 4
Macao 3
Jordan 3
Republic of Moldova 3
Panama 3
Pakistan 3
Palestinian Territory, Occupied 2
Hungary 2
Slovakia 2
Nepal 2
Senegal 2
Myanmar 2
Liberia 2
Guam 2
Tunisia 2
Bulgaria 2
Ukraine 2
Venezuela 2
Georgia 2
Colombia 2
Bahrain 2
United Republic of Tanzania 1
China 1
Lao People’s Democratic Republic 1
Bermuda 1
Latvia 1
Jamaica 1
Kyrgyzstan 1
Argentina 1
Morocco 1
Montenegro 1
Kenya 1
Guernsey 1
