Developer(s) Korea Computer Center Included with Red Star OS | Development status Unmaintained | |
Initial release 2013; 4 years ago (2013) (version 3.5) Operating system Available in Korean (North Korean standard) | ||
Naenara is a North Korean intranet web browser software developed by the Korean Computer Center for use of the national Kwangmyong intranet. It is developed from a version of Mozilla Firefox and is distributed with the Linux-based operating system Red Star OS that North Korea developed due to licensing and security issues with Microsoft Windows.
Design
Naenara is a modified version of Mozilla Firefox. Naenara is the only software distributed with the Red Star OS that is not named after its functionality. Red Star OS and Naenara were developed by the Korea Computer Center that states on its web page that it seeks to develop Linux-based software for use.
Kwangmyong intranet essentially uses the same architecture as the World Wide Web. Naenara can be used to browse approximately 1,000 to 5,500 websites in the intranet.
In 2010 Russia Today reported that Mozilla's Firefox website successfully recognized Naenara, and offered downloads for the latest Korean language version of Firefox for i686.
When Naenara is run, it tries to contact an IP address at http://10.76.1.11/. The IP address points to a copy of Apple's website in Korean. The default search engine for the browser is Google Korea.