Kim Jong Un's Tablet Can Do One Thing Your iPad Can't

It may not be able to connect to anything but state-sanctioned websites, and only offers a limited selection of apps (such as Angry Birds Rio).

But the Samjiyon tablet, manufactured and released in North Korea last year, does have at least one novel trick up its 7-inch sleeve: a built-in antenna for watching live, non-streaming TV.

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The $200 tablet was purchased late last month in Pyongyang by a tourist identified only as Michael, who sent the unboxing video below to Northkoreatech.org. If you believe the specs on the box, it has a 1.2 GHz processor — making it theoretically faster than the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 and the iPad 2, and within striking distance of the latest iPad's 1.4 Ghz processor.