The photos are flowing again from Pyongyang.

A week after mobile Internet users in North Korea began seeing messages telling them the site was blocked, access has been restored, the Associated Press reported on Thursday.

The block was an unusual one for the country, but then nothing about the Internet is normal in North Korea.

Almost the entire population of 25 million people is not permitted to access the network as part of draconian information control that bans foreign TV and print publications, independent media and also attempts to jam foreign radio broadcasts.

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