North Korea follows one man on Twitter... and he's Jimmy Dushku from Austin, Texas
As Google boss Eric Schmidt urges North Korea to enter a new age of digital freedom, details have emerged of the few friends the “hermit kingdom” already embraces on Twitter.
They are: communist Vietnam, a Pyongyang propaganda site, and a 25-year-old Texan who plays golf with Dennis Quaid and is obsessed with Coldplay.
Jimmy Dushku, an investor from Austin who also loves Jammie Dodger biscuits, has revealed he received death threats after fellow Twitter users discovered his unlikely link to the dictatorship. Some have accused him of sympathising with Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un, or even of being a spy.
Mr Dushku has more than 2,000 followers on the social network. For reasons no one has established, they include @uriminzok (“our nation”), North Korea’s official government account.
“I was initially surprised, but I always try to make friends with people from all different locations and backgrounds,” Mr Dushku told the Mother Jones website. He said he followed their account in return “out of courtesy”, later sending it a public message saying “have a nice day, my friend” in Korean.
Mr Dushku has received a trickle of abuse and occasional death threats since the friendship started, but his link to the totalitarian state has only come to broader light with Mr Schmidt’s controversial visit to Pyongyang.
More: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/…46870.html
2013-01-10 15:05:37
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Awwww… I wanted to be the “most followed guy” in North Korea. Oh well – another dream bites the dust. Is Somalia still open..???