Academics who use the channels to better understand the regime’s nuclear program are urging the company to reinstate them
YouTube has shut down two North Korean propaganda channels that academics use to monitor and assess the regime’s missile programs.
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.
On Friday they were terminated for violating YouTube’s community guidelines.
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WNU Editor: These channels provide a valuable tool for those who are trying to have a better understanding on what is happening inside North Korea .... closing them down has just made their job more difficult. And as for fears that these videos may influence people's opinions .... I doubt it. You have to be brainwashed from the 1950s to believe this stuff.
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