North Korea bans mobile phones
North Korea has recalled mobile phones from its citizens, nearly a year and a half after the service was introduced in the communist country, South Korean media reports say.
A North Korean official attending an inter-Korean economic meeting in Pyongyang confirmed that mobile phones were banned from May 25, according to pool reports.
"It's true that mobile phone use was prohibited," the official was quoted as saying yesterday.
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