My tour guide in 2010 had a cell phone (Score 1)

I toured the DPRK in 2010. Even back then, our North Korean tour guides had modern cell phones. Our female guide's phone, complete with keychain mascot, rang while we were in the woods driving from Pyongyang to the DMZ. This brought sense to why they told us we couldn't bring phones; these phones could potentially, ya know, work. The foreign tour guides, who did not have phones, explained that only government workers (like the tour entity) were allowed to have cell phones. I guess that loosened up, tho I can't fathom how a regular citizen would pay for the device or use.