{"id":27361,"date":"2017-07-29T07:22:59","date_gmt":"2017-07-29T11:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=27361"},"modified":"2017-07-29T07:22:59","modified_gmt":"2017-07-29T11:22:59","slug":"mark-records-pyongyangs-6-am-wake-up-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/mark-records-pyongyangs-6-am-wake-up-call\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark records &#8220;Pyongyang\u2019s 6 am wake up call&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/north_korean_propaganda.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13591\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/north_korean_propaganda.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"542\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/north_korean_propaganda.jpg 900w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/north_korean_propaganda-300x181.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This week,<em> SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, <a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/tag\/mark-fahey\/\">Mark Fahey<\/a>, was featured in the NK News for his research in North Korea. While Mark has made a wide array of his work available <a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/north-korea-information-gathering-in-the-worlds-most-restrictive-nation\/\">through a media-rich (free) iBook<\/a>, this particular article focuses on the &#8220;Morning Chorus&#8221; heard throughout Pyongyang in the early hours of the morning:<\/p>\n<p>(Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nknews.org\/2017\/07\/morning-chorus-pyongyangs-6-am-wake-up-call\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NK News<\/a>)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Why does an eerie electronic ballad play across North Korea\u2019s capital every morning?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It was early in the morning, but Mark Fahey had been awake for hours. A biomedical engineer turned North Korean propaganda expert, he had spent most of the night tinkering with a radio in his room at the Yanggakdo International Hotel, secretly recording the opening moments of Pyongyang FM Pangsong.<\/p>\n<p>While he listened to the station\u2019s typical offering of classical music and propaganda, another microphone and recorder were set up next to an open window to capture the sounds of the city as it roused itself awake. It was August 2011, and the sun hung low on the horizon. Fahey expected to pick up the sound of the dredging work taking place along the Taedong River.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, he heard music.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPyongyang is deadly silent at night,\u201d Fahey tells NK News. \u201cIf a lorry\u2019s just passing through the city, you\u2019re going to hear it. It\u2019s so quiet. And at 6 am, you hear this kind of weird\u2026\u201d he hesitates. \u201cIt sounds like mind control music.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Seeking an explanation, Fahey brought the tune up with his minder.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey didn\u2019t know what I was talking about,\u201d he recalls, \u201cbut I don\u2019t actually think that means they didn\u2019t know what it was. They probably didn\u2019t realize that I could hear it from where I was.\u201d[&#8230;]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/umO1Sl8HApE?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nknews.org\/2017\/07\/morning-chorus-pyongyangs-6-am-wake-up-call\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to continue reading the full article at the NK News.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nknews.org\/2017\/07\/morning-chorus-pyongyangs-6-am-wake-up-call\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The NK News article is fascinating<\/a> and also includes several more video clips from North Korea media.<\/p>\n<p>Also, consider downloading Mark&#8217;s interactive iBook\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/book\/id1215367066\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Behind The Curtain<\/em>\u00a0from the Apple store by clicking here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, SWLing Post contributor, Mark Fahey, was featured in the NK News for his research in North Korea. While Mark has made a wide array of his work available through a media-rich (free) iBook, this particular article focuses on the &#8220;Morning Chorus&#8221; heard throughout Pyongyang in the early hours of the morning: (Source: NK [&hellip;]<\/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":[3,1850],"tags":[1871,1647,2664,474,6382,4119],"class_list":["post-27361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-propaganda","tag-dprk","tag-mark-fahey","tag-nk-news","tag-north-korea","tag-north-korea-propaganda","tag-propaganda"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-77j","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":36768,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/an-aircraft-hijacking-story-with-a-shortwave-twist\/","url_meta":{"origin":27361,"position":0},"title":"An aircraft hijacking story with &#8220;a shortwave twist&#8221;","author":"Thomas","date":"April 3, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Mark Fahey, who writes: [A] great aircraft hijacking story with a shortwave twist.... 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This article tries to separate fact from fiction and turns to SWLing Post friend, Mark Fahey, among other North Korea experts:\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/North-Korea-Third-Network-Radio.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/North-Korea-Third-Network-Radio.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/North-Korea-Third-Network-Radio.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":31808,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/propaganda-shift-the-panmunjom-summit-and-monitoring-the-voice-of-korea\/","url_meta":{"origin":27361,"position":2},"title":"Propaganda Shift: The Panmunjom Summit and monitoring the Voice of Korea","author":"Thomas","date":"April 30, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"With North Korea in the global spotlight, I've been making every effort to listen to the Voice of Korea on shortwave.\u00a0 Unfortunately, from here on the east coast of North America, conditions have simply not been in my favor. 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