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Nov 22, 2011

North Korea set to register millionth cellphone user

PYONGYANG - Four years after North Korea's ban on phones had people thrown in prison camps or potentially executed for owning one, the state is about to register its one millionth cellphone user.

North Korea still bans calls into and out of the country

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