Chinese website opens email links with North Korea
A Chinese website has opened the first commercial email link to North Korea.
Silibank.com is running an experimental link with the North Korean capital Pyongyang.
The government had previously placed heavy restrictions on domestic internet access.
Access to the service will be limited to trade companies, government agencies or other official organisations.
A Silibank.com official, who declined to be named, says discussions are underway with authorities over a service for ordinary citizens.
But he admits the realisation of that aim remains some way off.
North Korea has its own domestic computer network but it is not linked to the internet.
Foreign visitors can link to the web, but only through international phone lines available in a handful of hotels in Pyongyang.
