Facebook Deletes Accounts Purporting to Be From North Korea

It’s unclear if Facebook, Twitter and Google accounts claiming to represent North Korea are truly from the isolated nation. Facebook, insisting that the social networking site is for real people aiming for real connections with real identities, deleted two suspect accounts. “The move comes as South Korea, which bans its citizens from communicating with the North, clamps down on Twitter Inc. accounts posting North Korean propaganda,” reports Jun Yang for Bloomberg.com. The Korean War raged from 1950 to 1953, with acrimonious relations and limited economic ties between the two nations since. Free sites offering swift communication must tempt both activists and separated families hopeful for some reunification. Computers, common in South Korea, are rare in the impoverished North with its dismal human-rights record. Long, bitter conflict – and the fact that North Korean internet access is limited to very few – ensures that neither side can count on delivery of genuine messages. – YaleGlobal