www.uriminzokkiri.com<\/a>).<\/p>\nThe communist country, which has attracted more than 11,500 followers on Twitter, also opened an account on YouTube as it ramped up online propaganda efforts.<\/p>\n
The South’s hackers last month sabotaged the official website with a 12-line acrostic poem — purportedly in praise of the Kims but with the first letter of each line spelling out derogatory words about them.<\/p>\n
Last week dcinside.com was temporarily paralysed by a massive DDOS (distributed denial of service) attack, the spokeswoman said.<\/p>\n
“The DDOS attack started mounting on our website as soon as local media reported the claim by our users that they duped the North with the poem,” she said.<\/p>\n
“Come out, Jong-Il and Jong-Un! Let’s fight!” dcinside.com said on its website Monday, referring to the North’s leader and his youngest son and heir apparent.<\/p>\n
“Our CEO updated the phrase himself, as we all suspect the North was behind the attack on our website last week,” the spokeswoman said.<\/p>\n
Users of dcsinside.com have apparently taken revenge by hacking the North’s Twitter account, @uriminzok. One of four critical postings urges the military to “point guns towards traitor Kim Jong-Il wasting fortunes on nuclear and missile weapons instead of feeding his people”.<\/p>\n
The tweets could still be read Monday morning. The Uriminzokkiri website was out of service Sunday before resuming operations on Monday.<\/p>\n
The dcinside.com spokeswoman said she could not confirm whether the website’s users were behind the hacking attack on the North’s Twitter account.<\/p>\n
South Korea’s Unification Ministry, Korea Communications Commission and National Intelligence Agency all declined to comment.<\/p>\n
The North is believed to have an elite unit of hackers. Some South Korean officials suspect it was behind a major DDOS attack on 25 US and South Korean websites in July 2009.<\/p>\n
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