By John Glenday

North Korea may be most familiar for its use of bellicose rhetoric, nuclear missile tests and grinding poverty but that hasn’t stopped the hermit kingdom from pursuing its own social media strategy.

And what better way to go about that than ripping off the world’s number one social media site, Facebook.

News of the approach first emerged when a clone of the popular platform briefly appeared on the StarCon.net.kp address, mimicking the look and features of its Californian rival.

Upon its discovery by Doug Madory of network management firm Dyn, some 300 people rushed to set up accounts disparaging North Korean leader Kim Read full story ›

Source: The Drum