North Korean smartphones secretly take screenshots every five minutes for government surveillance, capturing user activities without consent.
Screenshots are saved in a hidden folder inaccessible to users but retrievable by North Korean authorities, allowing detailed monitoring of behavior and digital profiling.
Surveillance aims to combat foreign cultural influence, restricting access to the global internet and enforcing censorship on terms like 'South Korea' and 'oppa' on a closed intranet system.
North Korean smartphones serve as tools of control to indoctrinate citizens and ensure ideological alignment with the regime through sophisticated surveillance and censorship mechanisms.