Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

North Korea's Twitter and Flickr Accounts Hacked By Anonymous

Posted by samzenpus on from the north-korea-has-a-flickr-page? dept.

First time accepted submitter njnnja writes "With tensions on the Korean peninsula continuing to rise, Anonymous hacked into the government-run North Korean Flickr site to post a 'wanted' poster for NK leader Kim Jong Un. It says that he is wanted for 'threatening world peace' and 'wasting money while his people starve to death.' They also hacked into NK's Twitter account and posted a link to the Flickr page."

2 of 212 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Priorities by PolygamousRanchKid+ · · Score: 3, Interesting

    they didn't pay enough attention to keeping people from getting in!

    . . . they just couldn't fathom the idea why anyone would want to get in . . .

    The hackers involve could have ended the current escalation. All they need to do, was to post this headline:

    "The fearless leader Kim Jong Un has declared victory over the US! The leader's strong courage has frightened the US! They have halted their plans to attack the Peoples' Republic! The war with the US is over! They won't attack tomorrow, or the day after, etc."

    Kim Jong Un might have like the idea, and adopted it as his own dogma. Thus, giving him a way out without anyone getting hurt.

    --
    Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
  2. Re:I approve. by ladoga · · Score: 3, Interesting

    That's not the impression I get from all that's been happening up there in NK lately. They aren't behaving by anyone's definition of "rational".

    Kim Jong-un trying to unite people behind him by building up imaginary foreign threat? Not exactly a novel idea or completely without rationale. He's a new leader, people are unsure of his power and some might want to take his place or get rid of him.

    For all practical purpose, they are 100% unpredictable. You have no way of telling what they're going to do next.

    Probably next he will just make more threaths. Threats don't kill, but they can coinvince some potential competitors in the political elite of NK that Kim Jong-un is not weak. Whatever the case the NK's dictator loves his power and using nukes would be the fastest way to throw it all away. He won't do that. As stupid as it sounds he's not crazy. It's debatable if lust for power that goes beyond the needs of your people is sane, but then many if not all(?) of our leaders would be crazy.