- Sili Bank
Sili Bank (Chinese: 實利銀行, "Shili Yinhang"; Korean: 실리은행, "Silli Ŭnhaeng") is a
financial institution based inShenyang ,Liaoning , China, closely related to the government ofNorth Korea .The name "sili" (linktext|實|利)means "true profit" in both Chinese and Korean.
In 2001 the bank began offering a limited
electronic mail relay service to and fromNorth Korea , whereInternet access is limited. Along withChesin.com , Sili Bank appears to be one of only two e-mail gateways to DPRK.Sili Bank maintains dedicated servers in
Pyongyang andShenyang , between which e-mail transmissions are exchanged once every 10 minutes (when the service commenced, this was hourly).As of
May 10 2003 , the fee for sending an e-mail to North Korea from abroad, was 0.1euro s perkilobyte for up to 40 kilobytes, and 0.2 cents for each additional kilobyte in each e-mail transmission.Fact|date=February 2007 The minimum charge per e-mail was 1 euro. Customers must first pre-register with Sili Bank with prepayment for estimated usage over a three-month period. SiliBank only allows e-mail relay between registered users of the service.External links
* [http://www.silibank.com/ Sili Bank official site] (in English, Korean, Simplified Chinese and Japanese)
* [http://www.vuw.ac.nz/~caplabtb/dprk/Email_DPRK.html Website offers email links to N. Korea] ("The New York Times ",November 1 ,2001 )
* [http://www.itworld.com/Tech/2987/IDG011106northkorea/ North Korea opens door to e-mail] ("ITworld ",November 6 ,2001 )See also
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Communications in North Korea
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