[HIB]South Korea attempts to ban North Korea Twitter feed

North Korea’s foray into Twitter has prompted its neighbours in the South to attempt to ban their citizens from following links to Pyongyang’s propaganda website. The North has used its Twitter feed, opened under the name @uriminzok, to post links to stinging anti-Seoul and anti-US statements on its Uriminzokkiri website (www.uriminzokkiri.com). Seoul has already blocked access to the Uriminzokkiri site, but Pyongyang has started putting different addresses on its Twitter page, which has attracted more than 8,600 followers, so users can bypass the block. The communist state has even put programmes on the Uriminzokkiri homepage which users can download to help them break the block and enter the site, which is Pyongyang’s official Internet mouthpiece. The normally reclusive North also launched its own channel on popular video-sharing website YouTube last month, uploading clips praising leader Kim Jong-Il and denying its role in the sinking of a South Korean warship in March.

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