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Also known as uriminzokkiri.com

Uriminzokkiri () was a North Korean state-controlled news website, much of whose content was syndicated from other news groups within the country, such as KCNA. Aside from on their own website, Uriminzokkiri also distributed information over YouTube, Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, Youku and Instagram until they had deleted their social media presence. Uriminzokkiri's official website was blocked in South Korea, and their Facebook and YouTube accounts were both terminated.

Key facts

Website.name
Uriminzokkiri
Website.logo
Uriminzokkiri Logo.png
Website.logo_caption
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Website.url
(English)
Website.commercial
No
Website.type
News
Website.registration
None for use, required for commenting
Website.language
Korean (North Korean standard), English, Chinese, Japanese, Russian
Website.content_license
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Website.owner
Korea 615 Shenyang Co.
Website.editor
Korea June 15 Edition Company ()<!-- or:
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Website.launch_date
2003
Website.current_status
Offline
Korean name.title
Uriminzokkiri
Korean name.context
north

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
news agency
Official name
우리민족끼리
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inception
2003-00-00
Alexa rank
29886
social media followers
16513
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Encyclopedic overview

6 sections
Contents
  • Etymology
  • History
  • Popular incidents and news articles
  • See also
  • References
  • External links

Uriminzokkiri () was a North Korean state-controlled news website, much of whose content was syndicated from other news groups within the country, such as KCNA. Aside from on their own website, Uriminzokkiri also distributed information over YouTube, Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, Youku and Instagram until they had deleted their social media presence. Uriminzokkiri's official website was blocked in South Korea, and their Facebook and YouTube accounts were both terminated.

==Etymology== The Uriminzokkiri website offered no official English translation of its name. The term can be broken down into uri, meaning "we", "our", or "collective self"; minjok, meaning "people", "nation", or in this case simply "Koreans"; and , meaning "with", "between", "together", or "among", in some cases with an exclusionary nuance, presumably intended in this case to convey the notion that Korean issues are to be solved by the Koreans themselves and not third parties or superpowers. The translation "on our own as a nation" has been used by a major newspaper. A relatively literal translation would yield "Our People (or Peoples) Together/As One", "Bringing Our Nation(s) Together", or "We the [Korean] People". A less literal translation incorporating the exclusionary nuance of might yield "Just Us Koreans".

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Uriminzokkiri” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.