North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un has taken secrecy a step further by blacklisting Instagram, in a bid to stop embarrassing news leaking out of the country.
Instagram users who attempted to open the photo sharing app were greeted with a message which reads, “Warning! You can’t connect to this website because it’s in blacklist site.”
A similar notice in Korean says the site contains harmful content, though that is not mentioned in the English version.
Such warnings have also appeared when websites that link to Instagram are accessed through desktops or laptops using LAN cables on the North Korean Internet provider.
It was learnt that the warnings have been appearing on and off for at least five days.
Meanwhile, tech support staff at Koryolink said they were not aware of any changes in policy regarding Instagram.
Although, there has been no officials notice from the government or from the mobile phone service to its customers that Instagram has been blacklisted.
