The site introduces dozens of North Korea-based companies, many of them in heavy and light industries, complete with contacts and pictures of their facilities. The site insists North Korea has invested heavily in construction and heavy utilities despite its failure to properly feed its 23 million people.

In a section that apparently allows visitors to use credit cards, the site exhibits products ranging from kimchi, cosmetics and movies to a four-wheel drive vehicle, a speedboat and even a high-tech medical device capable of detecting heart and brain abnormalities.

These products -- for just about everything one　 needs to lead a normal, if not plush, lifestyle -- can be purchased in U.S. dollars, the site said, despite the fact most of the written information is in Korean.