North Korean media warns of "unhealthy ideas" spread by mobile phones


  • World
  • Tuesday, 18 Dec 2018

FILE PHOTO - A man uses his phone as he sits along the Taedong river in Pyongyang, North Korea, September 12, 2018. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea's main state newspaper warned on Tuesday of the "negative impact" from mobile phones use around the world, as both legal and illicit communications devices proliferate in the isolated country.

Rodong Sinmun published an article citing a ban on phones in classrooms in France and reports of technology-enabled cheating in India and argued that mobile devices were spreading "decadent and reactionary ideological culture".

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