North Korea joins Facebook

Reclusive North Korea appears to have added Facebook to the list of social network services it has recently joined to ramp up its propaganda war against South Korea and the US.

An official at South Korea's Communications Standards Commission Han Myung-ho says an account was opened on Facebook late Thursday under the username "uriminzokkiri," (woo-ree-min-zoke-kee-ree) meaning "on our own as a nation" in Korean.

North Korea's government-run website Uriminzokkiri posted an announcement last week saying it had a Twitter account in addition to a YouTube account created in July.

The commission blocked North Korea's new Twitter account Thursday from being accessed in the South, saying the tweets contain information violating the country's security laws.