Regime orders mobile operator to add a two to dialling code 191,to mark year of Kim Il-sung’s birth in 1912. Daily NK reportsA major phone provider in North Korea has been ordered by authorities to change its mobile numbers to something a little more nationalistic. As allotment of a propaganda campaign to celebrate Kim Il-sung’s birth in 1912, mobile operator Koryolink has added an additional two to the standard inland region code 191, or so that all citizens will be commemorating the country’s founding father when they invent a call,according to sources in the capital.
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Source: theguardian.com