The Pirate Bay Claims It Is Hosting From North Korea: File Sharing March 5, 2013 - 12:40PM New logo ... The Pirate Bay is claiming it has been invited by North Korea to let users access its files from the country's network. First, Dennis Rodman. Now, The Pirate Bay. The controversial file-sharing website said it is now operating out of North Korea, after recently being forced out of Sweden. The Pirate Bay said Kim-Jong Un invited the website to North Korea, and the site's logo, which is a pirate ship, now features the North Korean flag on its sails. This is truly an ironic situation. We have been fighting for a free world, and our opponents are mostly huge corporations from the United States of America, a place where freedom and freedom of speech is said to be held high," reads a press release by the site. And to our help comes a government famous in our part of the world for locking people up for their thoughts and forbidding access to information. Although some are questioning the validity of the supposed move - the Pirate Bay had made a similar claim in 2007--the site's IP address has been traced to Pyongyang, North Korea. "If it's a joke, it's a very elaborate one," said a user on tech news forum Hacker News. The Pirate Bay's alleged move comes shortly after a visit to North Korea by former NBA player Dennis Rodman. Google's Eric Schmidt also recently visited the country. "We believe that being offered our virtual asylum in Korea is a first step of this country's changing view of access to information," the site's statement says. We will do our best to influence the Korean leaders to also let their own population use our service, and to make sure that we can help improve the situation in any way we can.