{"name":"Applied AI in North Korea — the record","description":"Every announced initiative, deployment, published result and regulation of applied AI on the record for North Korea, tagged by kind, industry, region and role, sourced and dated. A slice of the State of Applied AI record, maintained continuously by the Industrial Research Unit of the Straits Institute for Applied AI.","source":"https://www.straitsai.institute/state-of-applied-ai/north-korea","partOf":"https://www.straitsai.institute/state-of-applied-ai/evidence.json","attribution":"Industrial Research Unit, Straits Institute for Applied AI","updated":"2026-10-29","facet":{"kind":"country","name":"North Korea","slug":"north-korea","iso2":"KP","region":"Asia-Pacific"},"counts":{"entries":4,"deployments":4,"evidenceImpact":0,"evidenceAdoption":0,"regulation":0,"industries":3,"countries":1,"linked":4},"entries":[{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Healthcare & Life Sciences","region":"North Korea","role":"Korean medicine doctors","org":"Koryo Medical General Hospital","text":"Koryo Medical General Hospital, with Pyongyang Computer Technology University, built the Koryo Treatment Support System, an AI Korean medicine treatment tool that diagnoses internal medicine conditions by Korean medical methods and drafts herbal remedy and acupuncture prescriptions. It won a National Science and Technology Achievement Introduction Certificate in 2025. Newly built hospitals, including Kangdong County Hospital, now use it, spreading computer-aided traditional medicine diagnosis nationwide.","date":"2026-05","source":"http://www.nkeconomy.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=16645"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Education & Training","region":"North Korea","role":"Teachers","org":"Jeonjin Advanced Middle School","text":"Jeonjin Advanced Middle School, Pyongyang's first integrated K-12 institution, has built a dedicated AI education room in Nangrang District with educational robots and up-to-date teaching gear. The facility delivers staged AI in K-12 education: kindergarteners engage with robot play, elementary pupils tackle simple algorithms, intermediates move into programming, and advanced learners design and operate robots themselves. This graduated model of AI-based robotics teaching reflects a push to embed artificial intelligence instruction at every school stage.","date":"2026-01","source":"http://www.nkeconomy.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=15860"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"North Korea","role":"Weather forecaster","org":"State Hydro-Meteorological Administration (기상수문국)","text":"An AI weather forecasting system now spans every phase of prediction in North Korea, built by the State Hydro-Meteorological Administration to speed up output and sharpen accuracy through automated, intelligence-driven methods. State media named it a 2025 Top 10 Best Information Technology Product. Pyongyang presented the AI-based weather prediction platform as scientific backing for steady economic growth and quicker reaction to disasters like flooding.","date":"2025-11","source":"http://www.nkeconomy.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=15589"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Healthcare & Life Sciences","region":"North Korea","role":"Doctor","org":"Pyongyang General Hospital","text":"North Korea unveiled its AI smart medical system at the newly opened Pyongyang General Hospital, an intelligent medical service system built on smart software. Kim Jong Un attended and pressed for constant upgrades, wanting the AI-driven setup to sharpen patient care and hospital administration.","date":"2025-10-06","source":"http://www.nkeconomy.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=15366"}]}