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catman
Joined: 18 Jul 2004
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 Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2010 7:27 pm Post subject: N.Korea goes YouTube for propaganda |
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Eleven clips were found Tuesday under the name of uriminzokkiri, a North Korean government website.
One English-language video with a duration of five minutes and 56 seconds praised leader Kim Jong-Il, calling him as a "general sent by the heaven."
Another clip posted a week ago berates South Korean Foreign Minister Yu Myung-Hwan over his controversial remarks last month that young South Korean leftists should not enjoy freedom in the South but should live under Kim Jong-Il.
A third clip, also uploaded a week earlier, ridicules Seoul for its failure to prevent the UN Security Council from including Pyongyang's denial in its statement deploring the deadly March sinking of the Cheonan warship.
The North denies responsibility for the sinking of the Cheonan near the disputed inter-Korean sea border in the Yellow Sea, which claimed 46 lives.
Tensions have risen sharply since late May when South Korea and the United States, citing a multinational investigation, accused the North of torpedoing the corvette, the Cheonan.
North Korea has been expanding the use of the Internet in its propaganda offensive, Yonhap news agency said.
In June, a North Korean woman uploaded a clip praising the communist state on YouTube, drawing media attention in South Korea and abroad.
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catman
Joined: 18 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2010 6:47 pm Post subject: |
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Now on Twitter!
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North Korea, easily among the most oppressive regimes in modern human history, has officially taken membership in one of the most free and uncensored venues for mass self-expression ever to exist.
That�s right, the hermit kingdom has come out of hiding just long enough to join Twitter.
The account appears to have been set up by the North Korean government-owned news agency, Uriminzokkiri, one of the scant few to offer an English-language version of its news meant to be read by foreigners.
�The Web site �Our Nation� is on Twitter,� declared the account�s first post, published (in Korean) on 12 August. In the four days since then the account has attracted more than 2200 followers; though much like the country�s life-long leader, it follows no one.
This is not the media outlet�s first foray into social media. Uriminzokkiri launched a YouTube account about a month ago and as of this writing has 78 videos posted.
Kim Jong Il, the country�s �dear leader,� has never shied away from new technologies. He famously asked Madeleine Albright, former U.S. Secretary of State, for her email address during a state visit in 2000.
It is unclear what the North Korean motivation is for joining the world�s foremost micro-blogging service, aside from trumping fake North Korea twitter accounts. One in particular, @KCNA_DPRK, was widely believed to be real until it was discovered to be fake, run by a writer from the German-language parody site Stupidedia.
There is a diplomatic element to an official North Korean twitter account as well. The next time the country decides to detonate a nuclear warhead, Barack Obama can simply display his outrage via retweet.
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itsjustverbs
Joined: 05 Aug 2010
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| Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2010 8:12 pm Post subject: |
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| Kind of good NK is at least getting out there a bit |
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schwa
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
Location: Yap
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| Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2010 9:13 pm Post subject: |
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Heres a current story about a Korean guy who just got 2 years in jail (suspended) for posting links like that:
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2010/08/117_71522.html
"Relaying and posting material sympathetic to North Korea and its leader Kim Jong-il on the Internet is a clear violation of the National Security Law, a court ruled Monday..."
Just saying. |
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catman
Joined: 18 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2010 6:26 pm Post subject: |
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| schwa wrote: |
Heres a current story about a Korean guy who just got 2 years in jail (suspended) for posting links like that:
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2010/08/117_71522.html
"Relaying and posting material sympathetic to North Korea and its leader Kim Jong-il on the Internet is a clear violation of the National Security Law, a court ruled Monday..."
Just saying. |
It's too bad. South Koreans should have the right to post Nork propagnada. The vast majority of citizens here can see right through it. |
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jrabernethy
Joined: 14 Jul 2010
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| Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2010 10:43 am Post subject: |
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South Korea banned North Korea's twitter:
http://mashable.com/2010/08/19/north-korea-twitter-banned/
I don't know if I agree with them banning the twitter account. You would think NK propaganda would be painfully ineffective, thus no ban necessary. |
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toadkillerdog
Joined: 11 Nov 2009
Location: Daejeon. ROK
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| Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2010 6:41 pm Post subject: |
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| I love North Korea's propaganda. The comic value is priceless. You can also learn alot about whats going on inside the country by reading between the lines. |
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bacasper
Joined: 26 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2010 10:32 pm Post subject: |
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| schwa wrote: |
Heres a current story about a Korean guy who just got 2 years in jail (suspended) for posting links like that:
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2010/08/117_71522.html
"Relaying and posting material sympathetic to North Korea and its leader Kim Jong-il on the Internet is a clear violation of the National Security Law, a court ruled Monday..." |
Wait, I'm confused now.  Which one is the authoritarian state?  |
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