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

Melbourne: 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.