Can a USB stick make Kim Jong-un afraid? What happens when a state responds to the influx of foreign information, deemed illegal, within its borders? Renowned journalist and North Korea tech expert, Martyn Williams, examines these questions and more with the aim to increase awareness of North Korea’s propaganda operations and counter-information techniques. His report for HRNK, Digital Trenches: North Korea’s Information Counter-Offensive, is a fresh look at the Kim regime’s information operations from both technical and human rights perspectives. While North Korea remains the most restricted media environment in the world and violates its citizens’ fundamental human right to information, Williams delves into the technicalities of keeping people cut off from the world’s digital network.