{"id":28529,"date":"2017-09-27T10:59:51","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T14:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=28529"},"modified":"2017-09-27T10:59:51","modified_gmt":"2017-09-27T14:59:51","slug":"north-korea-aggressively-jams-new-bbc-broadcasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/north-korea-aggressively-jams-new-bbc-broadcasts\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea “aggressively” jams new BBC broadcasts"},"content":{"rendered":"

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(Source: The Telegraph<\/a>)<\/p>\n

The BBC’s new Korean-language service is being “aggressively targeted” by North Korean jamming of its broadcasts.<\/p>\n

The service was launched on Monday and delivers a mixture of global news, sport and radio features to the whole of the Korean Peninsula for a three-hour window that starts at midnight local time.<\/p>\n

Broadcasts are going out on two shortwave frequencies, from Taiwan and Tashkent, while the hour-long segment from 1am is relayed on medium wave from Mongolia, according to a report on the 38 North web site, operated by the US-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins University.<\/p>\n

“As listening to foreign radio is illegal, the government makes a great effort to prevent people from doing so”, the report states. “At the most basic level, it modifies radios so they cannot be tuned to anything but state-run channels, although that can be later reverse engineered.<\/p>\n

[…]The BBC broadcasts are going out after midnight, which will make it easier for listeners with access to short wave to tune in secretly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the full article at The Telegraph…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Source: The Telegraph) The BBC’s new Korean-language service is being “aggressively targeted” by North Korean jamming of its broadcasts. The service was launched on Monday and delivers a mixture of global news, sport and radio features to the whole of the Korean Peninsula for a three-hour window that starts at midnight local time. 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