While North Korea has made some serious-sounding threats about military action against the United States and South Korea lately, the country’s looking a bit silly after several of its online accounts were hacked.
North Korea‘s official Flickr and Twitter pages have been vandalized, with hacker collective Anonymous taking credit. The hackers also gained access to a North Korean music and book store and the country’s news and information site, both of which have both been taken down, The Next Web reports.
The Flickr page now includes an image of North Korea‘s leader, Kim Jong-un, with pig ears and a Mickey Mouse tattoo on his stomach. The image says Kim is “wanted” for “Threatening world peace with ICMBs and Nuclear weapons,” among other things. That same image now appears aindf.com, a South Korean political group with ties to North Korea.
Other images include a “We are Anonymous” logo and a pair of other photos with Guy Fawkes masks—a popular symbol among Anonymous hackers. North Korea‘s Twitter feed links to several of the hacked pages.
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