North Korea is afraid of Samsung cell phones

Olympians got free, special-edition Samsung Note8 cell phones. Nice perk. But North Korea banned their athletes from accepting the gift. Lou explains why cell phones are so scary to dictators. Yonho Kim’s study "Cell Phones in North Korea" https://www.uskoreainstitute.org/rese... Orascom & North Korea http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/03/17/n... Info about Olympic Samsung phone http://www.samsungmobilepress.com/new... Banned imports/exports to North Korea: https://www.un.org/sc/suborg/en/sanct... International Sanctions on Iran https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/inte... Definition of “Dual Use” http://ec.europa.eu/trade/import-and-... Stats on cell phone subscriptions throughout world (link prompts download) https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Statisti... CREDITS Writer: Louis Foglia Editor: m.cho Researcher: Dushyant Naresh