Cempaka Asean: Socialist networking? North Korea makes a splash on YouTube

"A Summary" – Apr 2, 2011 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Religion, Shift of Human Consciousness, 2012, Intelligent/Benevolent Design, EU, South America, 5 Currencies, Water Cycle (Heat up, Mini Ice Ace, Oceans, Fish, Earthquakes ..), Middle East, Internet, Israel, Dictators, Palestine, US, Japan (Quake/Tsunami Disasters , People, Society ...), Nuclear Power Revealed, Hydro Power, Geothermal Power, Moon, Financial Institutes (Recession, Realign integrity values ..) , China, North Korea, Global Unity,..... etc.) - Text version)

“….. Here is the prediction: China will turn North Korea loose soon. The alliance will dissolve, or become stale. There will be political upheaval in China. Not a coup and not a revolution. Within the inner circles of that which you call Chinese politics, there will be a re-evaluation of goals and monetary policy. Eventually, you will see a break with North Korea, allowing still another dictator to fall and unification to occur with the south. ….”

"The Timing of the Great Shift" – Mar 21, 2009 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) - (Text version)

“ … Here is another one. A change in what Human nature will allow for government. "Careful, Kryon, don't talk about politics. You'll get in trouble." I won't get in trouble. I'm going to tell you to watch for leadership that cares about you. "You mean politics is going to change?" It already has. It's beginning. Watch for it. You're going to see a total phase-out of old energy dictatorships eventually. The potential is that you're going to see that before 2013.
They're going to fall over, you know, because the energy of the population will not sustain an old energy leader ..."

"Update on Current Events" – Jul 23, 2011 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) - (Subjects: The Humanization of God, Gaia, Shift of Human Consciousness, 2012, Benevolent Design, Financial Institutes (Recession, System to Change ...), Water Cycle (Heat up, Mini Ice Ace, Oceans, Fish, Earthquakes ..), Nuclear Power Revealed, Geothermal Power, Hydro Power, Drinking Water from Seawater, No need for Oil as Much, Middle East in Peace, Persia/Iran Uprising, Muhammad, Israel, DNA, Two Dictators to fall soon, Africa, China, (Old) Souls, Species to go, Whales to Humans, Global Unity,..... etc.)

"The Recalibration of Awareness – Apr 20/21, 2012 (Kryon channeled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Old Energy, Recalibration Lectures, God / Creator, Religions/Spiritual systems (Catholic Church, Priests/Nun’s, Worship, John Paul Pope, Women in the Church otherwise church will go, Current Pope won’t do it), Middle East, Jews, Governments will change (Internet, Media, Democracies, Dictators, North Korea, Nations voted at once), Integrity (Businesses, Tobacco Companies, Bankers/ Financial Institutes, Pharmaceutical company to collapse), Illuminati (Started in Greece, with Shipping, Financial markets, Stock markets, Pharmaceutical money (fund to build Africa, to develop)), Shift of Human Consciousness, (Old) Souls, Women, Masters to/already come back, Global Unity.... etc.) - (Text version)

“… The Shift in Human Nature

You're starting to see integrity change. Awareness recalibrates integrity, and the Human Being who would sit there and take advantage of another Human Being in an old energy would never do it in a new energy. The reason? It will become intuitive, so this is a shift in Human Nature as well, for in the past you have assumed that people take advantage of people first and integrity comes later. That's just ordinary Human nature.

In the past, Human nature expressed within governments worked like this: If you were stronger than the other one, you simply conquered them. If you were strong, it was an invitation to conquer. If you were weak, it was an invitation to be conquered. No one even thought about it. It was the way of things. The bigger you could have your armies, the better they would do when you sent them out to conquer. That's not how you think today. Did you notice?

Any country that thinks this way today will not survive, for humanity has discovered that the world goes far better by putting things together instead of tearing them apart. The new energy puts the weak and strong together in ways that make sense and that have integrity. Take a look at what happened to some of the businesses in this great land (USA). Up to 30 years ago, when you started realizing some of them didn't have integrity, you eliminated them. What happened to the tobacco companies when you realized they were knowingly addicting your children? Today, they still sell their products to less-aware countries, but that will also change.

What did you do a few years ago when you realized that your bankers were actually selling you homes that they knew you couldn't pay for later? They were walking away, smiling greedily, not thinking about the heartbreak that was to follow when a life's dream would be lost. Dear American, you are in a recession. However, this is like when you prune a tree and cut back the branches. When the tree grows back, you've got control and the branches will grow bigger and stronger than they were before, without the greed factor. Then, if you don't like the way it grows back, you'll prune it again! I tell you this because awareness is now in control of big money. It's right before your eyes, what you're doing. But fear often rules. …”

Friday, August 27, 2010

Socialist networking? North Korea makes a splash on YouTube

RNW, 26 August 2010 - 1:51pm | By Andy Sennitt

The idea of North Korea deciding to launch an international charm offensive might seem ridiculous, but the hermit state is certainly up to something. A flurry of activity over the past few weeks has seen North Korea appear on YouTube, Twitter, and briefly on Facebook – although two attempts to establish a presence on the social networking site failed when Facebook management deleted the pages for "violating the site's terms of use".

Arrival at Pyongyang airport of former US president
Jimmy Carter

The YouTube channel is flourishing, and as of 26 August it had received more than a quarter of a million upload views. Initially, most of the videos were old ones taken from the official North Korean websiteuriminzokkiri.com, but I was interested to note a 19-second video showing the arrival at Pyongyang airport of former US president Jimmy Carter, who is visiting the country on a humanitarian mission to seek the release of a Boston man jailed since January. Unfortunately the audio and subtitles have only been in Korean so far, but the video shows that Mr Carter received a warm welcome.

Comments

Predictably, the YouTube channel has received a variety of comments – over one thousand as of 26 August – ranging from "North Korea is best Korea" posted multiple times by ostensibly different people, to one that says "I feel for the North Korean people. The DPRK has destroyed their will. I await the fall of your train-wreck of a nation."

The Twitter account seems to be used only to carry headlines from the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), and so far has failed to reveal any details of the daily life of the dear leader. KCNA has been available for many years via a server in Japan, so there’s nothing particularly striking about this development.

Government denies involvement

What’s intriguing is that the North Korean government denies that it has anything to do with the new sites.Forbes magazine quotes an unnamed government official as saying that the accounts are run by government supporters, not government officials, living in Japan and China, not North Korea. Those social media sites are still banned in North Korea, says the official. Nevertheless, the Twitter account gives the location as Pyongyang.

But even if the government is not actually running the accounts, they are being advertised on the Home Page of uriminzokkiri.com, which carries the latest official news from North Korea, and is only available in Korean, though the servers are actually located in Shenyang, China. This suggests that the target audience is South Koreans and North Korean exiles worldwide.

The Official Webpage of The Democratic People's Republic of Korea for international visitors is actually run by the Korean Friendship Association, and does not have any links to the YouTube and Twitter pages. The servers for this site are located in Germany, but the people who run it are in Spain, and have Spanish names, although they all include 'Government of the DPR of Korea' in their contact address.

All the 'North Korean' websites mentioned in this article are actually hosted on servers located in other countries. It's quite common for websites to use servers outside their country of registration, but it makes it difficult to find out who's really behind these sites.

Black clandestine?

Media analyst Kim Andrew Elliott comes up with another idea that should not be dismissed. He writes “This social networking effort might be a classic black clandestine effort, with all the messages pro-Kim Jong-il for now, but eventually deviating from the party line, maybe supporting one faction over the other, as a way to sow discord inside the DPRK, or among its supporters.”

Whoever is behind these initiatives seems to have good contacts with Pyongyang, as the short video of Jimmy Carter appears to be an item from the TV news, and was uploaded very quickly after the event. Of course, as North Korean TV is now available on satellite, it could have been recorded from a satellite feed. Further monitoring of the YouTube channel may make it clearer exactly what is going on.

All this online activity makes the Voice of Korea, formerly known as Radio Pyongyang, sound very old-fashioned, not helped by the atrocious audio quality of the shortwave service. I rarely listen to it, but I would be very surprised if the Voice of Korea makes even a passing reference in its broadcasts to YouTube and Twitter.

What's really going on?

It could be that the regime in Pyongyang is just carrying out some experiments and doesn’t want to admit to anything until the Central Committee has given its blessing. Do they, perhaps, realise that their external radio service is now so decrepit that it’s time to look at new ways of telling the world about the dear leader? Have they simply used a translation program that has turned ‘social networking’ into ‘socialist networking’? Or will Kim Andrew Elliott’s black clandestine theory turn out to be spot on? Time will tell, even if the North Korean government won’t.

Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa, left, accompanied by his North Korean counterpart, Pak Ui-chun, in Jakarta on Monday. Marty warned Pak that there was an “inherent risk” attached to the current freeze in six-party talks over the North’s nuclear program. (Reuters Photo/Enny Nuraheni)

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