Naenara (browser)

Naenara is a North Korean intranet web browser software developed by the Korea Computer Center for use of the national Kwangmyong intranet. It is developed from a version of Mozilla Firefox and is distributed with the Linux-based operating system Red Star OS that North Korea developed due to licensing and security issues with Microsoft Windows.[3]

Naenara
Naenara run in Red Star OS
Developer(s)Korea Computer Center
Initial release2013 (2013) (version 3.5)[1]
Operating systemRed Star OS 2.0, Red Star OS 2.5, Red Star OS 3.0, Windows[2]
Included withRed Star OS
Available inKorean (North Korean standard)
English
TypeIntranet browser

Design

Naenara is a modified version of Mozilla Firefox. Naenara is the only software distributed with the Red Star OS that is not named after its functionality.[4] 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.[5]

Naenara can be used to browse approximately 1,000 to 5,500 websites in the national Kwangmyong intranet.[6]

In 2010 Russia Today reported that Mozilla's Firefox website successfully recognized Naenara, and offered downloads for the latest Korean language version of Firefox for i686.[4]

When Naenara is run, it tries to contact an IP address at http://10.76.1.11/.[1] The default search engine for the browser is Google Korea.[4][3]

See also

References
  2. Owen Williams (8 January 2015). "Hands on with North Korea's homegrown operating system, Red Star". thenextweb.com. Retrieved 23 November 2015.
  3. Bernhard Seliger; Stefan Schmidt (4 April 2014). The Hermit Kingdom Goes Online: Information Technology, Internet Use and Communication Policy in North Korea. McFarland. p. 7. ISBN 978-1-4766-1770-1.
  4. "North Korea's "secret cyber-weapon": brand new Red Star OS". Russia Today. 8 April 2010. Retrieved 21 October 2015.
  5. "Korea Computer Center". Korea Computer Center. 2014. Archived from the original on 31 December 2014.
  6. Matthew Sparkes (23 December 2014). "Internet in North Korea: everything you need to know". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 23 November 2015.
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