Over the past couple of months, there has been a ton of news about the government of North Korea starting a Facebook Account, as well as Twitter and YouTube Accounts. Thousands of news publications spread the news of the new North Korean social networking strategy.

However, as it turns out, Mr. Jong Il’s government of North Korea does not have a Facebook, Twitter or YouTube account. They were all fake accounts, that not a single news source other than Forbes Magazine were able enough to pick up on. Forbes was the only news source who actually contacted the North Korean government in order to confirm the story.

It turns out they are the only ones who knew what they were doing. A lot of people found it odd, that a country as closed off to the world as North Korea, would opt to create social ties online with people living in other countries. The South Korean government even fell for the prank, by deciding to ban the accounts in its country for security purposes.

Will North Korea’s government ever have social networking accounts? They have not said either way.