Eric Schmidt reveals details about North Korea visit on his Google+ page

Eric Schmidt reveals details about North Korea visit on his Google+ pageBack in the US after his highly-publicized visit to North Korea earlier this month, Google's executive chairman Eric Schmidt revealed some details about his three-day trip, in an early Sunday post on his Google+ page.

Schmidt was on a "private humanitarian mission" to North Korea, along with former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson. The key objective of the mission was to impress upon the country's top authorities that North Korea's capability of future growth, particularly on the economic front, will become rather limited if the country remains isolated from the remaining part of the world which is becoming "increasingly connected."

Making a specific mention about the "very limited" technology that is presently available in North Korea, Schmidt said in his Google+ post that a number of measures have been put in place by the North Korean leaders to ensure that the country's population cannot gain access to content which is considered "objectionable" by the government.

According to Schmidt, North Koreans make use of a `supervised' Internet which seemingly requires the users to have someone monitoring their Web browsing at all times. Schmidt also added that there is also North Korea's Intranet, which features content that the government itself has put together.

However, Schmidt also said alongside that North Koreans are quite capable of whipping out their smartphones to circumvent the technological hurdles; and added: "There is a 3G network that is a joint venture with an Egyptian company called Orascom."