Well if anyone wanted to be a “friend” of Kim Jong-il, well here is your chance:

North Korea appears to have added Facebook to other social networking sites it recently joined to ramp up its propaganda war against South Korea and the U.S.

The account opened late Thursday under the Korean username “uriminzokkiri,” meaning “on our own as a nation,” an official at South Korea’s Communications Standards Commission said Friday.

The account opened hours after the commission blocked North Korea’s 1-week-old Twitter account from being accessed in the South for containing information that is illegal under South Korean security laws, the official said.

North Korea’s government-run website, Uriminzokkiri, announced last week that it has a Twitter account and a YouTube channel created in July.  [Fox News]

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