朝鮮推出網絡機頂盒Manbang 可看金正恩的紀錄片

North Korea announced last week that it's launching Manbang ("Mon-bahng"), what it's calling a "Netflix style video-on-demand."

朝鮮方面上週宣佈，該國已經上線了Manbang，並稱這是"網飛風格的視頻點播"。

Manbang literally translates to "everywhere" in Korean, and North Korea hopes the device will be ubiquitous.

在朝鮮語中，"Manbang"的意思是"無處不在"，朝鮮希望該網站能夠普及開來。

While North Korea bills the device as "Netflix for North Koreans," it's merely another extension of that country's internal propaganda.

雖然朝鮮一直宣傳該設備是"朝鮮的網飛"，但是這僅僅是該國內部宣傳的延伸而已。

Manbang's offerings couldn't be further from Netflix, which has become a portal for not only feature films and popular TV shows but also original content. Unlike Manbang, Netflix (NFLX) is available in 190 countries.

Mangbang提供的內容不可能比網飛多--後者不僅僅是特色電影和電視劇的門戶網站，還有很多原創內容。和Manbang不同的是，網飛在190個國家都能使用。

According to , the set-top box has two primary features: replaying documentary films about Kim Jong Un and his leadership and providing language-learning resources — for Russian and English.

據朝鮮新聞網報道，Manbang機頂盒有兩大主要功能：播放領導人金正恩的紀錄片和俄語及英語的語言學習資源。

Users can search for programs by typing the title or browsing through categories, which may be the only feature that it shares with Netflix.

用戶可以搜索標題或者查看目錄來尋找想看的節目——這可能是Manbang和網飛在功能上唯一的共同點了。

The overwhelming majority of North Koreans do not even have access to the internet. In fact, the number of secure internet servers per million people in the country was rated as zero as of last year, according to data from The World Bank. The North Korean government is looking to use Manbang as the device to provide North Koreans with limited access to the internet.

互聯網的使用在朝鮮並不普遍。事實上，根據世界銀行的數據顯示，去年朝鮮每百萬人中能使用到的安全互聯網數量趨近於零。朝鮮政府試圖利用Manbang來爲朝鮮民衆提供有限的上網機會。

The device was first announced on Korean Central Television (KCTV), the only official television news network for North Koreans. It won't be simple to use. Users will have to connect a phone line to a modem, plug a cable box into the national network, and connect a high-definition multimedia interface (HDMI) port to the TV.

朝鮮唯一的官方電視新聞媒體——朝鮮中央電視臺首先宣佈了這一裝置。不過它使用起來不是很容易。用戶需要把手機連接到調制解調器上，把機頂盒連到國家網絡上，再把高清晰度多媒體接口連到電視上。