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On Saturday, hackers hijacked North Korea's official Twitter account and YouTube channel to upbraid the country's leadership. Saturday was the birthday of current leader Kim Jong-il's son and heir apparent, Kim Jong-un.

A video that appeared on the hermit kingdom's YouTube page showed Jong-un driving a sports car over starving women and children, killing them with a splat of blood. On its Twitter account, @uriminzok, tweets appeared indicting the country's leadership.

South Korea, the high-tech and ostensibly democratic ally of the United States, has reportedly issued a warning that South Koreans who post Facebook and Twitter messages and forwards ("please don't retweet!") that praise communist North Korea will face legal prosecution.

According to one South Korean news daily, the government cited attacks by North Korea one and nine months ago as the cause of the heightened security status and the need to control social media communication. With extensive US assistance, South Korea separated from communist North Korea more than 60 years ago after a brutal war. The tension between the two countries remains some of the most heightened on earth. One of those countries is infamous for extreme control over everything its citizens think and say, but that's not the South.

About two months ago, we reported that two Current TV journalists, Laura Link and Euna Lee had been detained in North Korea on March 17. Today, we received the sad news that North Korea's Central Court found both reporters guilty of "a grave crime against the nation" and illegally crossing the border into North Korea. Link and Lee have been sentenced to 12 years in a labor camp. This sentence, of course, comes at a time when US-North Korean relations are already tense. The U.S. government says that it is 'deeply concerned' about this verdict.

Two US journalists from the groundbreaking mixed media company Current TV have been detained by authorities in North Korea, the NYTimes reported this morning. Current was co-founded by Al Gore and has innovated extensively in both its technology and business model.

Laura Ling, a Chinese-American, and Euna Lee, a Korean-American, are in North Korea reporting on refugees fleeing poverty.