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N Korea deleted nearly 35, 000 news articles on Kim's executed uncle

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Last Updated : Dec 17 2013 | 2:45 PM IST

North Korea has allegedly deleted more than 35,000 articles mentioning leader Kim Jong Un's uncle, who was executed last week for trying to overthrow the government, a Christchurch computer programmer claimed.

Frank Feinstein, who tracks the country's media output for a Washington website, NK News, discovered that the Korea Central News Agency (KCNA) has deleted thousands of news articles mentioning Jang Song Thaek from its on-line archives, Stuff.co.nz reports.

According to the report, translations in English, Spanish, Chinese and Japanese were also removed from the archives, bringing the total to nearly 100,000 deleted articles.

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First Published: Dec 17 2013 | 2:39 PM IST

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