YouTube terminated the channels for violating its community standards – not the first time it has targeted North Korean propaganda. Photograph: Eugene Hoshiko/AP
Stimmekoreas, the most popular YouTube channel on North Korea with more than 20, 000 subscribers, and Uriminzokkiri, which had more than 18, 000 subscribers, frequently posted of videos of state TV news clips and other footage, attracting millions of views.
Arms control expert Jeffrey Lewis uses these channels to analyze videos of missile launches and tours of factories, to better understand the regime’s nuclear capabilities. He urged YouTube to revoke its decision in the interest of national security.
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“North Korea is a country with thermonuclear weapons sitting on ICBMs [intercontinental ballistic missiles] that can reach the United States. It is really important to understand them even if we don’t like them, ” he said. “That starts by analyzing their propaganda. Even though it’s tendentious, you can learn a lot about a country from the lies they tell.”
Stimmekoreas is believed to be operated by a supporter of North Korea who lives outside of the country and posts hi-resolution videos of state propaganda from the Korean Central News Agency in a variety of languages.
Dear @YouTube, please stop doing this. Academics rely on this information to monitor and assess North Korea's missile programs. https://t.co/9bJoEJNF8Z— Jeffrey Lewis (@ArmsControlWonk) September 8, 2017
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Academics use official footage of missile launches to assess how powerful they are based on how quickly they are accelerating, he said. They can also learn about the weapons from machinery and parts visible in videos of factory tours by Kim Jong-un.
“When [Kim] visits a factory in the middle of nowhere and stares at machine tools, it provides an important insight into the progress they are making, ” added Lewis, the director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies.
Beyond the missile program, researchers can also learn about the people Kim Jong-un surrounds himself with, and which individuals are becoming more and less important in North Korea’s precarious political sphere.
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“North Korea uses YouTube as a primary distribution network for its propaganda, ” said Lewis. “Often you don’t know something is important until later, so having all that information available and searchable was incredibly valuable.”
Scott Lafoy, a Washington-based satellite imagery analyst told NK News: “Tracking and digitally reconstructing events is going to be more difficult as these accounts get deleted.”
YouTube did not immediately respond to questions about why the channels were shut down, although it could be because the advertising revenue generated by the accounts would violate US trade sanctions.
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“I know when I click on the videos I get ads, ” said Lewis. “So perhaps they are nervous about sending that money on to the North Koreans. But honestly the YouTube ad revenues are not going to make or break the missile program.”
It’s not the first time that YouTube has targeted North Korean propaganda. In November 2016, the video sharing platform closed down KoreanCentralTV1. Several other channels including Chosun TV, NK Propaganda and KCTV Stream were also axed, according to NK News.Want to see Kim Jong-un's latest PR stunt, or sing along to Moranbong Band's hits? North Korea Tech rates the most popular YouTube channels posting footage on the secretive state
It’s easier than ever to watch the latest video from North Korea thanks to a handful of YouTube channels that have sprung up in the last few years.
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Launched on 22 July 2010, StimmeKoreas is the most popular YouTube channel dedicated to North Korea. It has had more than 15m views for the hundreds of videos it hosts, and has 12, 000 subscribers. Footage is fairly varied, and includes state TV news clips.
Launched in September 2007, and claims to be the official YouTube channel for North Korea. It's banner says it has had more than 11m views and 11, 000 subscribers. Mostly posts TV clips, travel videos and music.
Launched in July 2010, Uriminzokkiri is a semi-official channel from a China-based website and has received more than nine million views. It has posted over 8000 videos, including many clips from state TV.
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Tonpo Mail had had more than 1m views and posts original videos and TV clips from a North Korean-related newspaper in Japan.
With more than 1m views, Koryo Media features videos from Mokran, one of North Korea’s major movie production houses. They appear to be unofficially uploaded.
The DPRKMusicChannel, as it says in its name, mostly posts North Korean music videos, including clips from state TV. It's had more than 1m views. It also posts North Korean films with English subtitles, such as Flower in the Snow
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Appears to be the official YouTube channel for The Korean Friendship Association (KFA), founded on November of the year 2000 with the purpose of building international ties with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Mostly shows KCNA state media TV footage with English subtitles
The official title of this video, uploaded by North Korea's state media agency, is: KPISF Men and Officers Vow to Annihilate War Maniacs
A relatively new addition to the spectrum of channels, these videos from KCNA news agency are automatically scraped from its website. Many, like the one above, are military-themed and intended to be a show of strength. The channel has had around 250, 000 views.
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Launched in 2011, DPRK Sports is dedicated to clips of sporting endeavours in North Korea (with separate channels for a whole host of sports including football, basketball and even water sports).Passers-by watch a TV news program showing image of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, in Tokyo, Saturday, Aug. 26, 2017. Three North Korea short-range ballistic missiles failed on Saturday, U.S. military officials said, which, if true, would be a temporary setback to Pyongyang's rapid nuclear and missile expansion. Japanese letters read: North Korea fired three missiles. (AP)
SEOUL: YouTube has cut off access to a state-run North Korean propaganda channel, as the US seeks to impose tougher sanctions following Pyongyang’s recent nuclear and missile tests.
The shutdown of Uriminzokkiri, which regularly posted video footage boasting of the North’s nuclear and missile programs and others praising the North’s leader Kim Jong-Un, was confirmed Saturday.
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YouTube gives no details on reasons why particular accounts are closed down, or for how long. But advertising revenue generated by the accounts could violate US trade sanctions.
Academics use official footage from the channels of missile launches and visits to factories by Kim to gain rare insights into the progress of the country’s weapons programs.
“Tracking and digitally reconstructing events is going to be more difficult as these accounts get deleted, ” Scott Lafoy, a Washington-based satellite imagery analyst, told NK News.
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Last month, Uriminzokkiri published a video featuring the two sons of James Joseph Dresnok, in which they said their father — the only US soldier known still to be living in North Korea after defecting more than five decades ago — had died last year pledging loyalty to the “great leader Kim Jong-Un.”
In July, it hosted a video featuring Lim Ji-Hyun, a female defector in her 20s who arrived in Seoul in 2014 and soon became a public figure, before apparently returning to the North from the “hell” of the capitalist South.
North Korea conducted its sixth nuclear test a week ago, saying it was a hydrogen bomb that could be fitted onto a missile — prompting global condemnation and calls for further sanctions.
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In November 2016, the video sharing platform closed down state-owned Korean Central TV1. Several other channels including Chosun TV, NK Propaganda and KCTV Stream were also cut off, according to NK News.
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