North Korea
opened an account with the global video-sharing website YouTube,
uploading clips praising the isolated Communist state.
Eleven clips were found Tuesday under the name of "uriminzokkiri," a
North Korean government website. The clips include videos denying allegations
North Korea
was responsible for the sinking of a South Korean warship.
One English-language video with a duration of five minutes and 56 seconds
praised leader Kim Jong-Il, calling him a "general sent by heaven." Another
clip posted last week berates South Korean Foreign Minister Yu Myung-Hwan over
his controversial remarks in July that young South Koreans who criticize
government policies should go and live under Kim Jong-Il.
A third clip -- also uploaded last week -- ridicules Seoul for its failure to
prevent the U.N. Security Council from including Pyongyang's denial in its
statement deploring the deadly March sinking of the Cheonan warship. The North
denies responsibility for the sinking of the Cheonan near the disputed
inter-Korean sea border in the
Yellow
Sea
, which claimed 46 lives.
Tensions have risen sharply since late May, when
South Korea
and the
U.S.
,
citing a multinational investigation, accused the North of torpedoing the ship.
North Korea
has expanded the use of the internet in its propaganda offensive,
Yonhap news agency said. In June, a North Korean woman uploaded a clip praising
the Communist state on YouTube, drawing media attention in
South Korea
and abroad.
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