The homepage of the Korean Federation of University Student Councils, or Hanchongnyeon, was attacked by netizens yet unknown on Friday, reports Money Today. Somebody apparently papered the main page of the website with obscene material (in this case, porn rather than the obscene material passing for political discourse that one can usually find on the site).
The pro-North Korean student group’s homepage has come under fire recently for its role in distributing guidelines–produced by another pro-North Korean unificationista group–for “taking hold of online opinion” from “reactionary, pro-American forces.” The guidelines represented plans to wage an organized online campaign to turn Korean cyberspace into a left-wing, pro-North Korean bastion through concerted comment and posting campaigns on major portal and news sites.
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I guess preemption works in cyberspace too.
Hanchongnyeon website attacked? Wow…there really is a God!
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