NEWS: Justin Bieber Subject Of Internet Joke

A public vote on the singer's My World Tour page has asked users which country he should tour next, with no restrictions on the nations.

This urged users of imageboard website 4Chan to nominate North Korea, with the vote now turning viral.

There are now almost half a million votes to send you tube great Justin Bieber to the secretive communist nation.

The contest, which ends 7 July, saw North Korea move from 24th to 1st place in less than two days, several thousand votes ahead of Israel.

Given the fact that almost all citizens of North Korea are denied internet access and there are restrictive controls over all media, it is very unlikely that any of the votes have actually come from within the country.

A spokesman for the North Korean Embassy in London told BBC News that any application for 16-year-old Bieber to tour would be dealt with by its mission to the United Nations.