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these commies can party ! ----- Forwarded message from Declan McCullagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- From: Declan McCullagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 09:29:04 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FC: North Korea embraces Internet gambling (I am not making this up) X-URL: Politech is at http://www.politechbot.com/ X-Author: Declan McCullagh is at http://www.mccullagh.org/ X-News-Site: Cluebot is at http://www.cluebot.com/ --- Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 08:47:04 -0500 From: "R. A. Hettinga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Laugh-out-Loud Funny: N Korea seals Net gambling venture http://technology.scmp.com/cgi-bin/gx.cgi/AppLogic+FTContentServer?pagename=SCMP/Printacopy&aid=ZZZ6K35Z6ZC Friday, March 29, 2002 N Korea seals Net gambling venture AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE in Pyongyang North Korea, the most socialist of countries, has turned to the unlikely arena of Internet gambling to promote a mass gymnastics exhibition being touted as a global tourist attraction. Although the Internet is virtually unknown in the Stalinist state, a joint venture has been formed with a South Korean firm allowing overseas gamblers to bet money through an online lottery based in the North. The lottery - specifics of which remain sketchy - is aimed at promoting the Arirang Festival, a huge-scale mass-entertainment display beginning in Pyongyang next month. Arirang organisers said they were keen to use the festival, which will see 100,000 people perform in Pyongyang's May 1 Stadium, as an attraction to bring foreign tourists into the cash-strapped country. The gambling venture would allow Internet users to log on to a North Korean-based site and use credit cards to buy virtual instant lottery cards, explained a statement released to foreign reporters allowed into Pyongyang to view preparations for the Arirang event. [...]
