[QUOTE=Yahoo News]North Korea has established its first official presence on Twitter, the micro-blogging site that's being embraced by governments and an increasing number of world leaders.
Late last week a Twitter account (@uriminzok) was set up by the Uriminzokkiri Web site. The site, whose name means "Our Nation," is the closest thing North Korea has to an official home page, and the site has a link in the upper right hand corner to the new Twitter account. Uriminzokkiri carries news and information and is one of the few Web sites believed to be run from the secretive nation.
The first message was posted to the account on Aug. 12 and declared (in Korean) "The Web site 'Our Nation' is on Twitter."
It was followed by three messages pointing to important documents: a 1997 essay written by defacto leader Kim Jong Il on reunification, the North-South Joint Declaration of June 15, 2000, and the declaration issued after the North-South summit of Oct. 4, 2007. Subsequent updates have pointed to recent news articles.
The messages are posted through Twitter's Web interface.
The account has proved popular and has attracted more than 1,000 followers in its first few days online, but few if any are likely to be reading from inside North Korea. The government keeps a tight control on access to information, and few people are believed to have access to Internet connections that allow links to foreign sites like Twitter.
Access at universities and libraries is largely limited to a domestic intranet service, and the few connections that reach across the border to China are monitored.
North Korea has taken the first steps towards wider use of the Internet with the registration late last year of national Internet addresses. The address, which had been reserved for the country but never used, were put under the control of a Thai-North Korean joint venture company. They are yet to be used.
Several Twitter accounts purporting to be from North Korea have already been set up, including one (@kimjongil) that claims to be the official account of Kim Jong Il. The account drew headlines when it was first spotted but its authenticity is in question, largely because its messages position Kim as an object of ridicule. Another account was launched in the name of the Korea Central News Agency, the country's official news service, but it was believed to be run by a third party and has been suspended.
The Twitter service isn't Uriminzokkiri's first excursion into social media. A YouTube channel was established about a month ago and already includes 71 videos. They appear to be a mixture of original content and North Korean state TV coverage.
Martyn Williams covers Japan and general technology breaking news for The IDG News Service. Follow Martyn on Twitter at @martyn_williams. Martyn's e-mail address is [email]martyn_williams@idg.com[/email][/QUOTE]
Twitter: [url]http://twitter.com/uriminzok[/url]
Source: [url]http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100816/tc_pcworld/northkoreajumpsontotwitter_1[/url]
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They have a Youtube channel as well:
[url]http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hXooACDGuZ-LkP2KArK07tm1Q_0A[/url]
[quote]
SEOUL — North Korea has opened an account with the global video-sharing website YouTube, uploading clips praising the isolated communist state and denying allegations that it sank a South Korean warship.
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.[/quote]
[url]http://www.youtube.com/user/uriminzokkiri[/url]
Also:
[url]http://www.uriminzokkiri.com/2010/index.php[/url]
[QUOTE=Ragy;24109344]Heh.
[IMG]http://gyazo.com/ac9190dd5b94103ad9f9e1b423d68168.png[/IMG][/QUOTE]
I lol'ed
FieldmarshaAzael
15 hours ago
KOREA* STRONG! *
:smug:
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXFfpv3eQws[/url]
[QUOTE=Ragy;24109344]Heh.
[img]http://gyazo.com/ac9190dd5b94103ad9f9e1b423d68168.png[/img][/QUOTE]
Laughed my ass off.
I'm so following on Twitter :buddy:.
Uriminzok
You're Mine, Okay?
Ok stupid joke aside, how the fuck did NK get internet access?
Oh well, just goes to show how low NK is sinking now days. Attacking the ocean, non stop constant empty threats, and now using Twitter as their public forum to deny being assholes
uriminzok
You're in my nzok?
All their youtube videos are depressing because people are told to act happy. It's so sad that they are plagued by an awful dictatorship that involves people starving to death every day. My heart goes out to the poor north Korean cilvians.
[QUOTE=ohadje;24109271]They have a Youtube channel as well:
[URL]http://www.youtube.com/user/uriminzokkiri[/URL]
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Those comments on their channel!
Hahahaha!
[QUOTE=Mr_Razzums;24123501]All their youtube videos are depressing because people are told to act happy. It's so sad that they are plagued by an awful dictatorship that involves people starving to death every day. My heart goes out to the poor north Korean cilvians.[/QUOTE]
Your heart is banned from country
Remove heart from country immediately or face severe consequences
Silly Jong-Il, the internet is for free people!
I was going to read what they had to say, then I realized it's all in Korean :v:
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;24123651]I was going to read what they had to say, then I realized it's all in Korean :v:[/QUOTE]
All of their Youtube channel and Twitter info translated = "King Jong-Il is god. King Jong-Il is god. King Jong-Il is god. King Jong-Il is god. King Jong-Il is god. King Jong-Il is god. King Jong-Il is god. King Jong-Il is god. King Jong-Il is god."
Fifty dollars that 4chan is going to try to stir shit with North Korea via twitter and youtube.
Here's a translation of their Twitter:
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The rest seems to be more NK propaganda
Or maybe it's to notify spies!
:tinfoil:
that uriminzokkiri is a korean to english romanization.
우리 민족끼리 means by our nation itself.
What exactly is the point in writing it in korean if the only North Korean thats going to see the page is NK's propaganda minister?
they have internet to the outside world??
North Korear will over take US nationalists, by defeating TWITTER!
[QUOTE=Ragy;24109344]Heh.
[img]http://gyazo.com/ac9190dd5b94103ad9f9e1b423d68168.png[/img][/QUOTE]
What a idiot. I hope he dies in shark infested waters for be so fucking stupid.
I'll bet Kimmy made a a whole new organization just for the updating of twitter.
[QUOTE=Kyle902;24124963]What exactly is the point in writing it in korean if the only North Korean thats going to see the page is NK's propaganda minister?[/QUOTE]
Maybe they hope South Korea will defect to them? It's stupid, but they have loudspeakers broadcasting propaganda at South Korea too
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