If you lived in North Korea would you watch this? Will only party members be able to watch this? Since it doesn't have any secure internet servers, could other countries or opposition groups take advantage of that? http://gizmodo.com/north-koreas-netflix-knockoff-will-stream-on-demand-pro-1785499584 North Korea's Netflix Knockoff Will Stream On-Demand Propaganda Michael Nunez Today 10:29amFiled to: NORTH KOREA Image: Korean Central Television The North Korean government has made a habit of ripping off American technology products. Back in 2013, Kim Jong Uns totalitarian regime made a state-sponsored Android phone ripoff, followed by a Mac OS X ripoff in 2015. Now, it appears that North Korea wants a piece of streaming video. According to a statement made by the countrys state-run news organization, the North Korean government is launching a state-sponsored equivalent of Netflix. The announcement is pretty unbelievable considering most of the country does not have functioning Internet. North Koreans (and visitors) will be able to access the service through a set-top box called Manbang, which roughly translates to everywhere in Korean and operates on the governments intranet. The service will allow people to binge-watch state-sponsored documentaries about the countrys totalitarian government or other state-approved TV programming. Great news if you cant get enough of Kim Jong Uns fictionalized family history. Foreign Policy reports North Korean television shows typically depict moral lessons meant to reinforce faith in the government. For example, when characters experience hardships, they are often overcome their sorrow by remembering their endless devotion to the party. If the North Korean government actually delivers on the promise to launch the set-top box, it would be an amazing feat. The country received an atrocious rating from the World Bank and Netcraft in a 2015 analysis of Internet connectivity. In the report, North Korea was shown to have zero secure internet servers compared to the 2,320 secure servers-per-million people in South Korea, just a few hundred miles away. The difference is baffling. Unfortunately, its hard to say if well ever get access to the documentaries shown on the North Koreas Netflix clone, but one thing is for surethey probably wont be showing The Interview anytime soon.