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“Schmidt said he told North Korean officials they should open up the country’s Internet ‘or they will remain behind’.  ‘As the world becomes increasingly connected, their decision to be virtually isolated is very much going to affect their physical world, their economic growth and so forth, and it will make it harder for them to catch up economically,’ he said.  ‘Once the Internet starts, citizens in a country can certainly build on top of it. The government has to do something. It has to make it possible for people to use the Internet which the government in North Korea has not yet done.’”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/01/10/google-chief-eric-schmidt-urges-north-korean-leaders-to-adopt-internet-freedom/