The smartphone, which was smuggled out of North Korea, has exposed the bizarre extent of dictator Kim Jong Un's control over the country's population.

The device would covertly take a screenshot every five minutes, storing the images in a secret folder which the user couldn’t access, but which presumably were accessible to North Korean

South Korean slang words are banned in North Korea - and the smartphone even takes an undetected screenshot every five minutes, with the images presumably seen by the Communist government

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A smartphone smuggled out from North Korea has exposed the disturbing methods used by leader Kim Jong Un to control the country's population. The seemingly normal phone attempts to curb any use of South Korean slang words and even takes an undetected screenshot every five minutes.

North Korea's regime deploys technology to censor language, monitor users, and eliminate South Korean cultural influence, revealing the extent of its authoritarian control over citizens' lives and information.

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