Naenara (browser)
Official web browser of North Korea
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Naenara is a North Korean intranet web browser software developed by the Korea Computer Center for use of the national Kwangmyong intranet.
| Naenara | |
|---|---|
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 Naenara running on Red Star OS 2 | |
| Developer | Korea Computer Center |
| Initial release | 2013 (version 3.5)[1] |
| Operating system | Red Star OS 2.0, Red Star OS 2.5, Red Star OS 3.0, Windows[2] |
| Included with | Red Star OS |
| Available in | Korean (Munhwao) |
| Type | Internet browser |
Design
Naenara is a modified version of Mozilla Firefox[3] 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.[4]
Usage
Naenara can be used to browse approximately 1,000 to 5,500 websites in the national Kwangmyong intranet.[5]
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.[6]
When Naenara is run, it tries to contact an IP address at http://10.76.1.12/.[1] The default search engine for the browser is Google Korea.[4]
