Google’s Schmidt Calls on North Korea to End Internet Ban
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Google Inc. Chairman Eric Schmidt called on North Korea to end its ban on Internet access after a visit to the totalitarian country with former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson.
“As the world becomes increasingly connected, their decision to be virtually isolated is very much going to affect their physical world,” Schmidt told reporters today at the Beijing airport after the visit to the North Korean capital, Pyongyang. “The government has to do something -- they have to make it possible for people to use the Internet, which the government in North Korea has not yet done. It is time now for them to start or they will remain behind.”