{"id":12622,"date":"2015-03-11T20:27:22","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T00:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=12622"},"modified":"2015-03-11T20:27:22","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T00:27:22","slug":"bbc-plans-north-korean-news-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/bbc-plans-north-korean-news-service\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC plans North Korean news service"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"NorthKorea-Map<\/a>Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> reader, Richard Cuff, for sharing this news from The Telegraph<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"BBC-WorldService\"<\/a>“The BBC is planning a new North Korea service to give the totalitarian state\u2019s 25 million people an alternative to Kim Jong-un\u2019s propaganda.<\/p>\n

In a move that could plunge the corporation into confrontation with the North Korean dictator, the World Service is examining how to set up a special news channel that will get around Pyongyang\u2019s ban on foreign media broadcasts.<\/p>\n

The plan has echoes of Western broadcasts into the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact countries during the Cold War, when the BBC, Radio Free Europe and Voice of America all broadcasted to listeners behind the Iron Curtain.<\/p>\n

However, it is likely to spark fury from Pyongyang\u2019s volatile leadership, and could lead to the British embassy in Pyongyang being targeted for protests or being shut down altogether.<\/p>\n

It could also put Britain in the firing line for North Korean-led cyberattacks, such as the one that targeted Sony Pictures last year over its film \u201cThe Interview\u201d, which lampooned Kim Jong-un.”[…]<\/p>\n

[Continue reading at The Telegraph..<\/a>.]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post reader, Richard Cuff, for sharing this news from The Telegraph: “The BBC is planning a new North Korea service to give the totalitarian state\u2019s 25 million people an alternative to Kim Jong-un\u2019s propaganda. In a move that could plunge the corporation into confrontation with the North Korean dictator, the World […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56,960,3,43,1167],"tags":[104,3684,327,1871,474],"class_list":["post-12622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-international-broadcasting","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","category-whats-on-shortwave","tag-bbc","tag-bbc-north-korea","tag-bbc-world-service","tag-dprk","tag-north-korea"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-3hA","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17382,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/bbc-to-launch-korean-news-service-via-shortwave-in-fall-2016\/","url_meta":{"origin":12622,"position":0},"title":"BBC to launch Korean news service via shortwave in fall 2016","author":"Thomas","date":"February 15, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: KBS World Radio via Andrea Borgnino) The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) will launch a shortwave radio service to North Korea this fall. 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