North Korean social media apparently hacked

CNN Wire Service

Some official North Korean Internet and social media sites appeared Thursday to have been hacked, possibly by the hacker collective Anonymous.

The hacking — including an image skewering North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on an official Flickr account — comes amid rising tensions between North Korea and several other countries including the United States.

The North Korean government website Uriminzokkiri.com was down Thursday morning, and the official @uriminzok Twitter account — also apparently tampered with — has messages claiming that Uriminzokkiri, the Flickr site and other North Korean sites have been hacked.

Among the pictures on the Flickr account Thursday: A “wanted” poster with an image showing Kim with a pig’s ears and nose.

The poster accuses Kim of “threatening world peace with ICMBs and nuclear weapons.”

Another image reads: “We are Anonymous.”

On the Twitter account, the usual image atop the page was replaced with one that reads “tango down” — military slang that has been appropriated by hackers to say they have interrupted service to a website.

The image also depicts dancers wearing Guy Fawkes masks, a favorite of the hacker collective.