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North Korea Tech » Uriminzokkiri https://www.northkoreatech.org Tue, 30 Dec 2014 04:52:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1 Live from Pyongyang, it’s KCTV on Facebook … or maybe not https://www.northkoreatech.org/2013/06/10/kctvs-facebook-page-isnt-quite-right/ https://www.northkoreatech.org/2013/06/10/kctvs-facebook-page-isnt-quite-right/#comments Sun, 09 Jun 2013 23:30:26 +0000 http://www.northkoreatech.org/?p=4814 On Thursday, South Korea’s Yonhap reported on a new Facebook page in the name of the Korean Central Television, North Korea’s national TV station. (Updated. See below.) Yonhap said, “North Korea’s state broadcaster started real-time Facebook broadcasting as the communist country moves to expand its propaganda efforts into the social networking realm, official sources said Thursday.” In…

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]]> https://www.northkoreatech.org/2013/06/10/kctvs-facebook-page-isnt-quite-right/feed/ 1 Uriminzokkiri restoring after hack https://www.northkoreatech.org/2013/04/07/uriminzokkiri-restoring-after-hack/ https://www.northkoreatech.org/2013/04/07/uriminzokkiri-restoring-after-hack/#comments Sun, 07 Apr 2013 05:44:47 +0000 http://www.northkoreatech.org/?p=4475

This week’s hack of the Uriminzokkiri website certainly raised the bar in the cyber battle currently playing out online. It marked the first time in the current round of attacks that anyone had managed to break in and deface a North Korean website. Over the last couple of weeks, several sites have been taken offline…

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]]> https://www.northkoreatech.org/2013/04/07/uriminzokkiri-restoring-after-hack/feed/ 2 North Korea Tech Uriminzokkiri, companion websites hacked https://www.northkoreatech.org/2013/04/04/uriminzokkiri-hacked/ https://www.northkoreatech.org/2013/04/04/uriminzokkiri-hacked/#comments Thu, 04 Apr 2013 08:44:39 +0000 http://www.northkoreatech.org/?p=4467

Uriminzokkiri, a China-based North Korean news website with close ties to Pyongyang, has been hacked. The site is currently inaccessible, companion websites have also been attacked and defaced, and it’s Twitter feed and Flickr pages have also been broken into. The hack came hours after a list of apparently 9,000 registered users of the site was…

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]]> https://www.northkoreatech.org/2013/04/04/uriminzokkiri-hacked/feed/ 6 North Korea Tech Hackers claim 15,000 Uriminzokkiri user records https://www.northkoreatech.org/2013/04/02/hackers-claim-to-have-hit-uriminzokkiri/ https://www.northkoreatech.org/2013/04/02/hackers-claim-to-have-hit-uriminzokkiri/#comments Tue, 02 Apr 2013 05:44:02 +0000 http://www.northkoreatech.org/?p=4393

A hacker or hackers working under the umbrella of “Anonymous” claims to have broken into Uriminzokkiri.com, the North Korean-run site based in China, and taken over 15,000 user records. A message posted online makes the claim and includes details for six accounts, apparently showing user names, e-mail addresses, birth dates, and hashed passwords. These are…

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]]> https://www.northkoreatech.org/2013/04/02/hackers-claim-to-have-hit-uriminzokkiri/feed/ 13 North Korea Tech North Korea: The Podcast https://www.northkoreatech.org/2013/03/21/north-korea-the-podcast/ https://www.northkoreatech.org/2013/03/21/north-korea-the-podcast/#comments Thu, 21 Mar 2013 06:18:04 +0000 http://www.northkoreatech.org/?p=4282

Uriminzokkiri, the Chinese-based website that carries most of North Korea’s official propaganda output, has started a podcast and it’s available through Apple’s iTunes. The podcast is advertised on the front page of the website with a link that jumps to an Apple iTunes page. The page currently carries ten episodes of the podcast, which is…

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]]> https://www.northkoreatech.org/2013/03/21/north-korea-the-podcast/feed/ 0 North Korea Tech YouTube zaps another Uriminzokkiri video https://www.northkoreatech.org/2013/02/21/youtube-zaps-another-uriminzokkiri-video/ https://www.northkoreatech.org/2013/02/21/youtube-zaps-another-uriminzokkiri-video/#comments Wed, 20 Feb 2013 22:32:13 +0000 http://www.northkoreatech.org/?p=4154 Another Uriminzokkiri video has been removed from YouTube for copyright infringement. This time it’s a propaganda video that borrowed its soundtrack from the video game “The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion.” The takedown, confirmed by a message when users attempt to access the clip, comes just two weeks after a previous propaganda video was removed after…

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]]> https://www.northkoreatech.org/2013/02/21/youtube-zaps-another-uriminzokkiri-video/feed/ 2 Activision cuts short North Korea’s space dreams https://www.northkoreatech.org/2013/02/06/activision-cuts-short-north-koreas-space-dreams/ https://www.northkoreatech.org/2013/02/06/activision-cuts-short-north-koreas-space-dreams/#comments Tue, 05 Feb 2013 23:49:41 +0000 http://www.northkoreatech.org/?p=4038 That didn’t last long. U.S. video game maker Activision has filed a copyright takedown demand with YouTube resulting in the removal of a video that sees a North Korean man dream of reunification, Korean domination of space and the collapse of the United States. Uriminzokkiri is a semi-official North Korean web site based in China. It speaks…

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]]> https://www.northkoreatech.org/2013/02/06/activision-cuts-short-north-koreas-space-dreams/feed/ 7 Kim Jong Il’s death – How DPRK websites broke the news https://www.northkoreatech.org/2011/12/19/kim-kong-ils-death-how-dprk-websites-broke-the-news/ https://www.northkoreatech.org/2011/12/19/kim-kong-ils-death-how-dprk-websites-broke-the-news/#comments Mon, 19 Dec 2011 04:47:56 +0000 http://www.northkoreatech.org/?p=2325

A familiar newscaster dressed in black appears on screen and makes a tearful announcement: Kim Jong Il is dead. When North Korean state TV and radio broke the news at noon on Monday they had already given advance notice that a major announcement was coming. Its delivery was an attempt to set a national mood…

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]]> https://www.northkoreatech.org/2011/12/19/kim-kong-ils-death-how-dprk-websites-broke-the-news/feed/ 4 North Korea Tech Uriminzokkiri’s Twitter account still down https://www.northkoreatech.org/2011/01/22/uriminzokkiris-twitter-account-still-down/ https://www.northkoreatech.org/2011/01/22/uriminzokkiris-twitter-account-still-down/#comments Sat, 22 Jan 2011 01:30:10 +0000 http://www.northkoreatech.org/?p=1254 Uriminzokkiri, the China-based website that carries North Korean news to the world, was the center of attention earlier this month when its Twitter and YouTube channels were hacked. Four Twitter messages and a YouTube video denigrating Kim Jong Il and his son, Kim Jong Un, were posted on Jan. 8, which is reportedly the birthday…

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]]> https://www.northkoreatech.org/2011/01/22/uriminzokkiris-twitter-account-still-down/feed/ 1 Uriminzokkiri Twitter reportedly hacked https://www.northkoreatech.org/2011/01/08/uriminzokkiri-twitter-reportedly-hacked/ https://www.northkoreatech.org/2011/01/08/uriminzokkiri-twitter-reportedly-hacked/#comments Sat, 08 Jan 2011 03:27:55 +0000 http://www.northkoreatech.org/?p=1136

The Twitter account of Uriminzokkiri, the China-based web site with close ties to Pyongyang, has apparently been compromised. (See the bottom of this post for updates.) Four messages posted on Saturday morning are derogatory to leader Kim Jong-Il and Kim Jong-Un, his son and heir apparent. Yonhap News translated one of the messages: “Let’s create…

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