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  gnu.rep.kp.

That's pretty interesting. I wonder what they've got on that.

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Based on Google Translate, it's nothing related to GNU, but "Pyongyang broadcast "national unity" editorial".

GNU actually refers to 'grand national unity' in this context, one of the three fundamentals for Korean unification outlined in the 1972 North-South Joint Declaration (the other two being peace and independence).

Based on the screenshots, gnu.rep.kp appears to be a website for the Pyongyang Broadcasting Station.

The site is available to the world, http://gnu.rep.kp/

Is it malicious?

Nah. Here are some screenshots (google translated): http://imgur.com/a/C2Gp7

> Dafeng strange fruit spreads across the Great Hall won the People's love and young manhood of the world's largest hot in that reverence Kim Jong-un...

North Korean is a different dialect so it's no surprise Google struggles with it. It looks like a news/propaganda site.

Not just the dialect that's tough to translate, but also the diction. DPRK propaganda tends to use a lot of bombastic language -- it shows in their English press releases as well.

All the gnus that's fit to print.

If you run it while disabling JS and Flash, it should be safe.

Here's 4 screenshots I took of a few I visited... http://imgur.com/a/Czllv

http://gnu.rep.kp/

I am not sure I want to click on that...

Red Star OS repos, presumably?

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