A website that on first glance closely resembled that of the state-run Korean Central News Agency, but in fact pointed to news articles critical of the country appears to be been taken offline.

The English-language site was available at www.kcna.co and was modeled on the KCNA website run from Pyongyang at www.kcna.kp.

On Thursday lunchtime (Korean time) the site disappeared to be replaced with an “account suspended” notice.

The message greeting visitors on Thursday morning to a page styled after KCNA (Photo: North Korea Tech)

The site had carried the same logo, same selection of languages and same categories of news as the official home page, although on the fake More >