{"id":2486,"date":"2008-01-31T19:33:18","date_gmt":"2008-01-31T19:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2486"},"modified":"2008-01-31T19:33:18","modified_gmt":"2008-01-31T19:33:18","slug":"2008-1-31-cairo-and-pyongyang-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2486","title":{"rendered":"Cairo and Pyongyang"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s another chapter in the bizarre relationship between North Korea and Egypt. I understand it all begun when North Korea effectively ran <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/alt.politics.korea\/browse_thread\/thread\/863a638ceae7bfc1\">Egypt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s air force<\/a> (at least in Upper Egypt) around 1970, later sold scud missiles and related services, in 1989 built a war panorama, but also furnished Cairo with some of its best <a href=\"\/archives\/2007\/01\/24\/the-crossing-and-the-csf-conscript\/\">foreign cuisine restaurants<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Now, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s business, too. Maybe inspired by Orascom Construction Industries investments in the North-Korean cement industry, Orascom Telecom undertakes to build up North Korea\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s mobile phone network.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/afp.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5jNngcbExm8PYwhMQO2qcPw2STm5w\">afp<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It was unclear how widely the Orascom Telecom service would be available to the public. Spokespersons were not immediately available for comment.<\/p>\n<p>North Korea began a mobile phone service in November 2002. But 18 months later, it banned ordinary citizens from using the service and began recalling unauthorised handsets.<\/p>\n<p>There is still thought to be a mobile network in Pyongyang which is open for government officials. Most foreigners are not allowed to use mobile phones inside the country.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s another chapter in the bizarre relationship between North Korea and Egypt. I understand it all begun when North Korea effectively ran <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/alt.politics.korea\/browse_thread\/thread\/863a638ceae7bfc1\">Egypt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s air force<\/a> (at least in Upper Egypt) around 1970, later sold scud missiles and related services, in 1989 built a war panorama, but also furnished Cairo with some of its best <a href=\"\/archives\/2007\/01\/24\/the-crossing-and-the-csf-conscript\/\">foreign cuisine restaurants<\/a>.<br \/>\nNow, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s business, too. Maybe inspired by Orascom Construction Industries investments in the North-Korean cement industry, Orascom Telecom undertakes to build up North Korea\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s mobile phone network.<br \/>\nFrom <a href=\"http:\/\/afp.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5jNngcbExm8PYwhMQO2qcPw2STm5w\">afp<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nIt was unclear how widely the Orascom Telecom service would be available to the public. Spokespersons were not immediately available for comment.<br \/>\nNorth Korea began a mobile phone service in November 2002. But 18 months later, it banned ordinary citizens from using the service and began recalling unauthorised handsets.<br \/>\nThere is still thought to be a mobile network in Pyongyang which is open for government officials. Most foreigners are not allowed to use mobile phones inside the country.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[82,6,70],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2486"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}