{"id":28359,"date":"2017-09-16T06:33:45","date_gmt":"2017-09-16T10:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=28359"},"modified":"2017-09-16T06:33:45","modified_gmt":"2017-09-16T10:33:45","slug":"go-after-north-korea-with-sanctions-and-short-wave-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/go-after-north-korea-with-sanctions-and-short-wave-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"“Go after North Korea with sanctions and short-wave radio”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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(Source: Yahoo News<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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Key GOP Lawmaker:\u00a0Go after North Korea with sanctions and short-wave radio<\/h2>\n

WASHINGTON \u2014 House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce, R.-Calif., called Wednesday for tough new sanctions on Chinese banks that do business with North Korea. Royce also said the Stalinist regime in Pyongyang has been losing its totalitarian grip on a population increasingly getting information from short-wave radio and contraband South Korean movies.<\/p>\n

Royce said in an interview with Yahoo News on Sirius XM POTUS Channel 124 that he had met with a top North Korean defector who played up the impact of communications from the outside world as a way to pressure the government of Kim Jong Un.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe told me that the one thing really shaking the resolve of people across North Korea is the information that\u2019s coming in on two short-wave [radio stations] run by defectors,\u201d Royce said. \u201cThey\u2019re telling people what\u2019s really going on in North Korea and in the outside world.\u201d<\/p>\n

The defector, Royce recalled, said, \u201cYou should help amp that up and get that all across the country.\u201d<\/p>\n

Voice of America and Radio Free Asia \u2014 descendants of Cold War-era information warfare \u2014 currently broadcast 10 hours per day of short- and medium-wave radio into North Korea, according to a congressional aide. And Congress doubled their Korean-language programming for the year ending Oct. 1 to $6 million, where it will stay for the next fiscal year, the aide said.[…]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Continue reading at Yahoo News…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Source: Yahoo News) Key GOP Lawmaker:\u00a0Go after North Korea with sanctions and short-wave radio WASHINGTON \u2014 House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce, R.-Calif., called Wednesday for tough new sanctions on Chinese banks that do business with North Korea. Royce also said the Stalinist regime in Pyongyang has been losing its totalitarian grip on a […]<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56,869,960,3,43],"tags":[870,1871,499,474,1529,1093,10,182],"class_list":["post-28359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-clandestine","category-international-broadcasting","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-clandestine-radio","tag-dprk","tag-free-speech","tag-north-korea","tag-radio-free-asia","tag-rfa","tag-voa","tag-voice-of-america"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-7np","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7357,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/shortwave-radio-the-secret-item-found-in-many-north-korean-homes\/","url_meta":{"origin":28359,"position":0},"title":"Shortwave radio: the secret item found in many North Korean homes","author":"Thomas","date":"September 21, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm not surprised to find that North Korean\u00a0families hide shortwave radios. 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