Nork News on Twitter

Telegraph:

A feed under the name "kcna-dprk" - acronyms of Pyongyang's state Korean Central News Agency and the country's official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea - provides links to hundreds of the agency's English-language stories. The background of the Twitter page for the feed shows the North's red-and-blue national flag.

It is unlikely that the news agency itself is behind the operation; other Twitter users have operated similar news-relay feeds in the past, most notably for CNN. Even if KCNA is operating the feed, ordinary citizens in North Korea - one of the world's most isolated nations - are unlikely to have access to Twitter.

The totalitarian regime bans nearly all of its 24 million people from accessing the internet in its attempt to control the flow of all outside information. Only high-ranking officials have access to the web.

A tweeter named James Cox started a similar feed for CNN reports under the handle "cnnbrk." Earlier this year, the network bought the feed, which Mr Cox had been maintaining, though he has no affiliation with the news company.

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If President Obama is looking for some bracing insults, he might want to subscribe as a follower. My speculation is that someone in South Korea is making the news more available. So far no one has attempted such a feed of PrairiePundit, but I do have my own twitter sight where i make pithy comments from time to time.

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