Uriminzokkiri
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Uriminzokkiri is the official website of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea, distributing information over the web and, since August 2010, over Twitter
. Articles of North Korean media are seen at the site.
Uriminzokkiri claims for peaceful unification of Korea and communications of the North and the South. However, many of the times Uriminzokkiri is viewed as a PR scam of North Korea. Many of the times it put up inappropriate articles to speak for and praise its notorious government and dictator. Many of the articles do NOT reflect the reality of North Korea and is used to propagate their ideals of communism.
Uriminzokkiri is also criticized for screening comments. In the process of 'unnatural selection', Uriminzokkiri only allows advocative comments to be posted. This is done by site managers in Shen Yang, China, by reading through all the comments one by one. However, there has been several times when their efforts to screen derogatory comments. Site managers were summoned back to North Korea when members of DC Inside, a South Korean site, posted a comment by using a acrostic
. While the content of the comments seemed to praise Kim Jong-Il and his heir, reading the first letters of every line made up the words '김정일 미친놈' and '김정일 개새끼' meaning 'Kim Jong-Ill is a lunatic' and 'Kim Jong-Ill is a son of a b****'.
There has been more unpleasing encounter with DCInside members. When DCInside was attacked by a DDoS attack, many of its members allegedly accused government-run North Korean hackers. Members of DCInside, then sprang up into action. On Jan. 7th 2011, huge number of DCInside members, each using a server hacking tool, declared an all-out cyber war on the North Korean PR websites, including Uriminzokkiri and its youtube, facebook account as well. As a result, the main page of Uriminzokkiri was filled up with satires and agitative comments. Also its youtube account was posted with videos parodying the latest derailment of train filled with luxuries for Kim Jong-Eun, Kim Jong-Ill's heir. The video features Kim Jong-Eun driving a sports car, running over starving children saying 'I don't need peoples of North Korea', then being ended up squashed by the train and coughing out blood. This event stirred up the South Korean public, making it one of the hottest issues.
Twitter
Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, informally known as "tweets".Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July...
. Articles of North Korean media are seen at the site.
Uriminzokkiri claims for peaceful unification of Korea and communications of the North and the South. However, many of the times Uriminzokkiri is viewed as a PR scam of North Korea. Many of the times it put up inappropriate articles to speak for and praise its notorious government and dictator. Many of the articles do NOT reflect the reality of North Korea and is used to propagate their ideals of communism.
Uriminzokkiri is also criticized for screening comments. In the process of 'unnatural selection', Uriminzokkiri only allows advocative comments to be posted. This is done by site managers in Shen Yang, China, by reading through all the comments one by one. However, there has been several times when their efforts to screen derogatory comments. Site managers were summoned back to North Korea when members of DC Inside, a South Korean site, posted a comment by using a acrostic
Acrostic
An acrostic is a poem or other form of writing in which the first letter, syllable or word of each line, paragraph or other recurring feature in the text spells out a word or a message. As a form of constrained writing, an acrostic can be used as a mnemonic device to aid memory retrieval. A famous...
. While the content of the comments seemed to praise Kim Jong-Il and his heir, reading the first letters of every line made up the words '김정일 미친놈' and '김정일 개새끼' meaning 'Kim Jong-Ill is a lunatic' and 'Kim Jong-Ill is a son of a b****'.
There has been more unpleasing encounter with DCInside members. When DCInside was attacked by a DDoS attack, many of its members allegedly accused government-run North Korean hackers. Members of DCInside, then sprang up into action. On Jan. 7th 2011, huge number of DCInside members, each using a server hacking tool, declared an all-out cyber war on the North Korean PR websites, including Uriminzokkiri and its youtube, facebook account as well. As a result, the main page of Uriminzokkiri was filled up with satires and agitative comments. Also its youtube account was posted with videos parodying the latest derailment of train filled with luxuries for Kim Jong-Eun, Kim Jong-Ill's heir. The video features Kim Jong-Eun driving a sports car, running over starving children saying 'I don't need peoples of North Korea', then being ended up squashed by the train and coughing out blood. This event stirred up the South Korean public, making it one of the hottest issues.
External links
- http://www.uriminzokkiri.com - Main web page
- http://twitter.com/uriminzok - Twitter page
- http://www.youtube.com/user/uriminzokkiri - YoutubeYouTubeYouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos....
page - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/8247833/North-Koreas-Twitter-account-hacked-to-call-for-uprising.html - Telegraph article on the incident
- http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2011/01/20111862917898430.html - Aljazeera article on the incident