S. Korea pushing to open integrated information center on N. Korea

SEOUL (Yonhap) - South Korea is pushing to build an open source-based center that will consolidate information on North Korea next year, an official said Thursday.
The envisioned center will collect scattered information made public by media reports, press releases and announcements by international organizations, said the official at the Unification Ministry handling inter-Korean affairs.
He said ordinary citizens can have access to the center as it would handle information and data already available on the Internet.
Separately, the ministry has been working to build a database of the North's geography, officials and other information on North Korea since last year.
The National Intelligence Service, Seoul's top spy agency, and other government agencies currently provide basic information on North Korea on their Web sites.
North Korea is one of the world's most closed societies, making it very difficult to get information about it.