In 1984 moment, N. Korea deletes near entirety of news archives

NKNews ^ | December 16, 2013 | Chad O’Carroll

[TigerLikesRooster]

In 1984 moment, N. Korea deletes near entirety of news archives

In striking development, North Korean media deletes near-entirity of its article archives

by Chad O’Carroll , December 16, 2013

North Korean state media outlet the Korea Central News Agency (KCNA) has deleted over 35,000 articles from its on-line archives.

The deletion, the biggest ever article removal in KCNA’s history, means that with the exception of a small number of articles about Kim Jong Un, the digital record of state-approved news currently only reaches back to October 2013 on KCNA’s North Korea (.kp) hosted website.

“There were 35,000 articles dated September 2013 or earlier on KCNA in Korean. If they’re leaving the odd one in, it’s still a kill ratio of 98-99%,” said Frank Feinstein, a New Zealand based programmer that tracks North Korea’s online media output for NK News.

In addition to the 35,000 original Korean language articles, translations in English, Spanish, Chinese and Japanese were all deleted from the archives, bringing the total to nearly 100,000 missing articles.

Article identifiers previously used to locate KCNA articles showed up “NULL” results when verified on the kcna.kp domain on Monday, while searches only returned results from October 01, 2013 onwards.

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In addition, Feinstein said that approximately 20,000 articles had also been removed from the archives of the Rodong Sinmun, North Korea’s state newspaper.

“This is a a calculated thing they’ve done. Across all sites, it means the order most likely came from above each individual agency.

“This is what makes it so interesting – it’s a true North Korean purge, not just a KCNA one,” Feinstein explained.

[TigerLikesRooster]

P!

[struggle]

Something must be seriously tense in North Korea if Chubby is doing this.

[Repeat Offender]

Before people start laughing at the Norks, I'd like to take this opportunity to ask how the following disappeared from our news cycle:

Benghazi, Fast and Furious, arming Syrian "rebels," 0's birth certificate and college transcripts, 0care waivers, 2008 Black Panthers' intimidation of voters, the ROEs in Afghanistan, backing of the Muslim Brotherhood in the middle east, capitulation on Iran, etc etc etc

[TigerLikesRooster]

Yeah. When Chubby is aiming ZPU-4 anti-aircraftgun to people, they will be very tense. No time to pick and choose. Do the most simple and safest thing: delete the whole thing. Could be reprimanded for lack of finesse but that's the small price to pay for saving one’s neck.

[Steely Tom]

If Obama demanded that the US MSM do this, most would comply immediately. All he'd have to do is couch it in political terms: "the TEA Party and Republican white racists are misusing the historic record to sow seeds of hatred against President Obama."

[SC_Pete]

Nothing ever gets deleted:

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/jang-song-thaek-north-korean-2-power-executed-report-article-1.1546100

[Tijeras_Slim]

Before people start laughing at the Norks, I'd like to take this opportunity to ask how the following disappeared from our news cycle:

You don't have to disappear something that never appeared.

[SC_Pete]

and this:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/10272953/Kim-Jong-uns-ex-lover-executed-by-firing-squad.html

[TigerLikesRooster]

I am sure NSA and Google have all of them.:-) You can delete entire content form your website but can't delete their copies at NSA and Google.

[arthurus]

North Korean media deletes near-entirity of its article archives by Chad O’Carroll

Sounds like Mr. O'Carroll created the Nork archives. Or at least the Norks are destroying the portion of the archives created by Mr. O'Carroll.

[moovova]

Hopefully, both the Anonymous group and our vaunted NSA have copies...just in case I ever learn to read Korean.

[left that other site]

You are correct.

I keep getting visions of Winston snipping people out of group photos with Big Brother and dropping the clippings down the Memory Hole.

[PistolPaknMama]

Obama’s wet dream.

[SC_Pete]

Narcissist; egomaniac; indeterminate sexual orientation; sociopath. Amazing how people like rise to the top.

[COBOL2Java]

I think Chubby Kim's been watching the "Men in Black" movies a little too much...

[nuconvert]

They only had 35,000 articles on their on-line archives?

[Viennacon]

What is going on there?

[Chode]

kinda like facebood scrubbing profiles every time some RAT nutcase goes off it's meds and shoots up a school or something...

[JPG]