The most popular North Korea-related YouTube channel was deleted by the video website on Wednesday for copyright infringement.

[April 26 update: The channel is now back. Read on for details of how that happened]

The Stimme Koreas channel had amassed around 15 million views for the hundreds of videos it hosted, ranking it above second-placed North Korea Today.

It had attracted more than 12,000 subscribers but today all those subscribers saw was a blank page with a message from YouTube:

“YouTube account stimmekoreas has been terminated because we received multiple third-party notifications of copyright infringement from claimants including: DPRKMusicChannel.”

A YouTube message seen on the Stimme Koreas channel More >