North Korea uses Twitter for propaganda offensive
canada.com AFPAugust 16, 2010 The secretive regime has begun micro-blogging under the name @uriminzok, with a number of posts pointing its few dozen followers to anti-Seoul and anti-US statements on the country's official website (http://www.uriminzokkiri.com). Photograph by: Loic Venance, AFP/Getty Images SEOUL - North Korea's propaganda campaign has surged into the 21st century with a new Twitter account, hot on the heals of its foray into video with clips posted on YouTube. The secretive regime has begun micro-blogging under the name @uriminzok <http://twitter.com/uriminzok> , with a number of posts pointing its few dozen followers to anti-Seoul and anti-US statements on the country's official website (http://www.uriminzokkiri.com <http://www.uriminzokkiri.com/> ). South Korea blocks the site and few in North Korea have access even to a computer. One tweet dimissed assusations that a North Korean torpedo sank a South Korean warship in March. Another critisiced US-led sanctions on North Korea and Iran. Most followers posted derisive comments in Korean. Tensions on the peninsula have risen sharply since late May when South Korea and the United States, citing a multinational investigation, accused the North of attacking a South Korean warship, the Cheonan, near the contested border. The North vehemently denies involvement in the incident. Last month it opened an account with YouTube <http://www.youtube.com/user/uriminzokkiri#p/ap://> , a popular global video-sharing site, uploading video clips which praised leader Kim Jong-Il and denying its role in the sinking. North Korea operates an army of elite hackers. South Korea's spy agency has said that the North was behind cyber attacks that briefly paralysed the web sites of South Korean and US government agencies and commercial organisations last year. C Copyright (c) AFP -- "Fate loves the fearless." - James Russell Lowell [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [email protected]. -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [email protected] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [email protected] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
