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North Korea Looking For Friends On Facebook

Posted by samzenpus on from the mandatory-friend-list dept.

crimeandpunishment writes "North Korea has apparently decided this social networking thing is worth doing. Just days after launching Twitter and YouTube accounts, it appears to have added Facebook to the list. It probably won't get too many friends in South Korea, which has already blocked access to the North Korean Twitter account for containing 'illegal information' under its security laws...and says the Facebook page could suffer the same fate."

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  1. The Accounts In Question by pgn674 · · Score: 4, Informative

    uriminzokkiri (uriminzok) on Twitter

    YouTube - uriminzokkiri's Channel

    Facebook | Uriminzokkiri

    Looks like the original Facebook "people" account they made was removed (probably by North Korea when they realized it didn't make sense to have a "people" account), and replaced with a "page" thing. I noticed the original account's username was uriminzokkiri, and the new one is uriminzokkiriLike, so maybe North Korea changed accounts primarily because they want the Like button? Lots of guessing here.

  2. Re:Hi! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Parent Anonymous Coward was making a reference to a popular meme which revolved around the 2chan and 4chan communities where angry [South] Koreans were waging electronic warfare (e.g. DDOS attacks, spamming, etc.) because of anti-korean jokes that were popular at the time.

    Unfortunately, this had the opposite of the intended effect and caused a more explosive anti-korean reaction - including the use of hundreds of different custom created images where everyone wanted it to be known that "North Korea is Best Korea". It reached its peak during the anti Bieber explosion of 4chan antics where the board members successfully destroyed the Bieber world-tour campaign's Internet contest to see where he would [definitely] go on his world tour (as well as many other humiliatingly hilarious things also).

    So your horrible attempt at humor was in actuality, massive fail. Plus that originally became popular from Full Metal Jacket.. a movie that took place in Vietnam.. not Korea.

  3. Re:Rather stupid... by jonfr · · Score: 4, Informative

    No. Only the military can get to the internet, and people connected to the leader of North-Korea. Everyone else can use the North-Korea intranet that they have if that person is lucky.

    The rest has nothing but media owned by the government, that is spewing out propaganda about South-Korea, U.S and others.

    North-Korea does not have official connection with the internet.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_North_Korea