A South Korean Web site has shown what it claims is the first videotaped evidence of dissent in North Korea involving a nascent, organized movement against its leader, Kim Jong-il.

A 35-minute video clip posted on the Web site, www.dailynk.com, showed a portrait of Kim taken inside a factory building and defaced by writing that demanded freedom and democracy.

The footage, said to be taken in November, was reportedly obtained through a network of activists operating in China from a group of young North Koreans who taped it in the North's northeastern border city of Hoeryong.

The tape was allegedly delivered last December to the Seoul-based Citizens' Coalition for Human Rights of Abductees and North Korean Refugees, which later handed it over to dailynk.com.

Do Hee-youn, who heads the South Korean coalition, said the group that shot the footage was comprised of people who would be able to exercise influence on the North Korean public. However, he declined to say whether they were members of the North's communist party or the military.

Dailynk.com, which made the footage available on Monday, is operated by a group of former North Korean defectors and refugees who have settled in the South.