Pyongyang, in an apparent mistake, revealed that it has only 28 websites, website GitHub reported. Matt Bryant, a security engineer at GitHub, reportedly noticed that North Korea's system administrators had made a mistake that allowed users outside the isolated country to view websites that used the '.kp' name, Motherboard reported. The name is the country's code top-level domain name, the way Indian websites end with '.in'.

The leaked data indicates that the '.kp' sites include kcna.kp or rodong.rep.kp, which belong to the state news agency and the state newspaper respectively and one for Air Koryo, the national airline. The data showed the existence of "Friend at friend.com.kp" which seems akin to a social network platform. Korfilm.com.kp focuses on films made in the country while cook.org.kp featured recipes.

The strictly controlled and monitored internet in Pyongyang has generated a lot of curiosity and the apparent mistake reportedly increased traffic on the North Korean sites. Earlier reports had indicated that Pyongyang's internet had around 5,500 websites with its domain name.

According to a report by The Washington Post, the number of websites revealed isn't surprising as very few citizens have access to the internet. A significant section of the population has access to a national intranet known as the Kwangmyong — a network of government-approved websites, which were not part of the leak.