South Korean laws governing inter-Korean exchanges do not prohibit citizens from viewing YouTube accounts sharing North Korean propaganda, an official from the country’s Ministry of Unification (MOU) said Tuesday.

Speaking during an off-the-record background-briefing to local press, the comments came in response to a question about how the South Korean government plans to respond to marked increase in North Korean propaganda on social media and YouTube.

NK News has reported extensively on Pyongyang’s efforts to modernize its media for a more tech-savvy audience, through the use of likely sockpuppet Twitter accounts and increasingly-slick production styles.

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