Asia
SMS to North KoreaOne rate for North Korea, $0.0931, from the first message to the millionth. Unicode segments for the local script, your name as the sender, carrier acknowledgement. Funded in crypto, without identity checks.
01Rate
Sending to North Korea costs $0.0931 per segment, which places it 32nd of 32 in Asia and 224th of 228 overall, 136% above what the region costs on average.
| Messages | Cost | Elsewhere from |
|---|---|---|
| 1,000 | $93.10 | $200.00 |
| 10,000 | $931.00 | $2,000.00 |
| 100,000 | $9,310.00 | $20,000.00 |
| 1,000,000 | $93,100.00 | $200,000.00 |
Closest in price nearby: Uzbekistan ($0.0870), Kyrgyzstan ($0.0838), Tajikistan ($0.0791).
02Route notes
Every licensed mobile operator in North Korea is reachable on this route. All of them deliver alphanumeric senders as typed, so your brand name appears on the handset without registration. Delivery is measured per operator and incidents appear on the status page under the regional route.
Messages written in the local script are Unicode, so a single segment holds 70 characters (67 per part when concatenated). Latin-only text stays in GSM-7 at 160 characters (153 per part when concatenated). The composer shows which encoding applies as you type.
The default delivery window for North Korea runs from 09:00 to 21:00, local time; schedule by local hour and the campaign opens when North Korea does. International format uses +850: +850 074 857 524.
Operators in North Korea acknowledge acceptance but do not return handset receipts; sent is the final positive state and it is billed as usual.
03Sender ID
Type a name of 3 to 11 characters, A-Z, 0-9, space and it is what recipients see. No registration step for this destination; if a single carrier refuses the name, that message falls back to a numeric sender and the report says so.
Alphanumeric delivered
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05Nearby
06Questions, answered
Every licensed mobile network in North Korea, monitored on the status page under the regional route.
International format with +850, for example +850 074 857 524. Local formats are normalised automatically when the destination is known.
Within the local window 09:00 to 21:00, seven days a week, unless you widen it. Scheduling by local time follows the destination's clock, daylight saving included.
$0.0931 per segment, 136% above the Asia average. Elsewhere the same route is published from $0.2000. Billed per message at send time, no other fees.
Your name as the sender. Type a name of 3 to 11 characters, A-Z, 0-9, space and it is what recipients see. No registration step for this destination; if a single carrier refuses the name, that message falls back to a numeric sender and the report says so.
Alphanumeric senders are one-way. Rent a numeric sender with inbound enabled and replies are forwarded to your webhook.
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