Kim Jong-Il Joins Twitter

[Canuckistanian]

His new nemesis, Barack Obama, is on Twitter. So are many of the movie stars that North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il is known to admire. So perhaps it's no surprise that the regime led by the self-described film buff and Internet fan has also joined the fast-moving social networking site.

North Korea has for decades been the most isolated country on the planet, with almost no links to the outside world. The Internet can be accessed only by the most powerful and well-connected in Pyongyang, while ordinary North Koreans aren't allowed to possess mobile phones.

Which is why the discovery Monday that the North Korean government has a Twitter page caused a stir in the world known as the Twitterverse.

“First they got nukes. Next level: Twitter account” tweeted Mikaël Hardy, a French engineer living in the Chinese city of Shenzhen and one of the first to discover that Mr. Kim's regime had gone online using the account kcna_dprk.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/the-tyrant-who-tweets/article1152638/

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1. Lee Myung Bak Group's Fascist Suppression under Fire

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1:31 AM May 26th from Tweetbots
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2. lol wow

http://twitter.com/kcna_dprk

[Botany]

3. K to the J and the I. L.

Kim tweets in his hizzy.

[Canuckistanian]

4. It's da bomb

Literally.

[WeDidIt]

5. Kim's Jong looks Ill n/t

[JVS]

6. I hope he starts blogging!

[Jack Rabbit]

7. Gee, you mean I can tell a fascist pig madman exactly what I think of him

. . . almost to his face?

Wow, a childhood fantasy has come true.

Dear Leader, how many people could you have fed with what you spent on a nuclear test this week?

Dear Leader, I was wondering about this, and you may know something about it: Do movie stars mate in captivity?