SEOUL: A US$50 (RM183) portable media player is providing many North Koreans a window to the outside world despite the government's efforts to keep its people isolated – a symbol of change in one of the world's most repressed societies.
By some estimates, up to half of all urban North Korean households have an easily concealed "notel", a small portable media player used to watch DVDs or content stored on USB sticks that can be easily smuggled into the country and passed hand to hand.
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