Google exec chairman looks at N. Koreans using Internet
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Executive Chairman of Google, Mr Eric Schmidt (third from left) and former New Mexico governor Bill Richardson (second from right) watch as a North Korean student surfs the Internet at a computer lab during a tour of Kim Il Sung University in Pyongyang, North Korea on Tuesday, Jan 8, 2013. Mr Schmidt is the highest-profile US executive to visit North Korea - a country with notoriously restrictive online policies - since young leader Kim Jong Un took power a year ago. -- PHOTO: AP
PYONGYANG (AP) - Google's executive chairman is getting a first-hand look at how students at North Korea's top university use the Internet - including Google.
An American delegation that includes Mr Eric Schmidt and former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson visited Kim Il Sung University in Pyongyang on Tuesday.
The students showed the visitors how they search for documents using Google and Wikipedia.
Mr Richardson is leading a group that he says is making a "private, humanitarian" trip to North Korea. The country is widely considered to have the world's most restrictive Internet policies.
