South Korean Censorship Obscures Vital Information – Analysis – Eurasia Review

By Martin Weiser

North Korea deleted a large portion of its online presence in January 2024, with eight of its websites going offline along with most of its social media accounts. This followed a speech by North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un during an important party plenum in late December 2023 where he declared that unification with South Korea was impossible.

The scope of this deletion only slowly made headlines in South Korea due to the comprehensive censorship of North Korean websites and social media accounts. This was underlined by…