Is a VPN legal in North Korea?
Banned or effectively banned
There is no consumer internet to run a VPN over. Access is limited to a domestic intranet for almost everyone, and the small number of people permitted onto the global internet are monitored directly.
This is not legal advice. It is a summary of publicly reported positions, last reviewed on 2026-09-13. Laws in this area change quickly and are often enforced differently from how they are written.
If the answer matters to your safety, check a current local source before you travel or install anything. Every claim here links to what it rests on.
Sources
- Freedom House, Freedom in the World: North Korea
- Blocking measurements: OONI, CC BY-SA 4.0
Legal summary last reviewed 2026-09-13.
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