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In 2014, Brazilian humorist Maurício Cid created a fake YouTube channel called "Korea News Backup" that supposedly uploaded videos from North Korean television. During the 2014 FIFA World Cup , the channel posted videos of North Korea defeating the teams from the United States, China, Japan, among others, and winning the championship in a 8-1 ...
Poverty in North Korea has been widely repeated by Western media sources [2] [3] [4] with the majority referring to the famine that affected the country in the mid-1990s. [5] A 2006 report suggests that North Korea required an estimated 5.3m tonnes of grain per year while harvesting only an estimated 4.5m tonnes, and thus relies on foreign aid ...
North Koreans are generally not allowed to access YouTube or any site on the World Wide Web due to political censorship, and Un A is no “ordinary” North Korean citizen. On the contrary, the original Echo of Truth channel appears to be a state media operation.
North Korea's U.N. Ambassador Kim Song told the Security Council that Pyongyang would accelerate the buildup of its nuclear force to "counter any threat presented by hostile nuclear weapons states
Over the weekend, North Korea earned further worldwide scorn after it tested a highly technical long-range rocket system. This graphic shows why North Korea is a real threat to the US Skip to main ...
This is the oldest and main television channel in North Korea, and it started regular broadcasting in 1963. As of 2017, it is the only North Korean TV channel broadcasting to the outside world via satellite television and IPTV aside from domestic transmissions. On satellite, KCTV is available in standard definition as well as in Full HD. [10]
The YouTube live stream of the press conference of US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Colombian President Iván Duque Márquez on April 15, 2019, was disrupted for CANTV users. [159] The YouTube restrictions returned with the return of the protests on November 16. [160]
Human-rights discourse in North Korea has a history that predates the establishment of the state in 1948. Based on Marxist theory, Confucian tradition, and the Juche idea, North Korean human-rights theory regards rights as conditional rather than universal, holds that collective rights take priority over individual rights, and that welfare and subsistence rights are important.