{"id":3137,"date":"2012-03-29T11:23:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T15:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=3137"},"modified":"2012-03-29T11:42:54","modified_gmt":"2012-03-29T15:42:54","slug":"radio-korea-is-having-problems-staying-on-the-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/radio-korea-is-having-problems-staying-on-the-air\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio Korea struggles to stay on air"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"A problem worth noting: Radio Korea has been having difficulty keeping their shortwave broadcasts on the air. As North Korea Tech<\/em> points out, their domestic broadcasting arm is still operating:<\/p>\n

(Source: North Korea Tech<\/a> via shrtwvr<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Voice of Korea, the DPRK\u2019s international shortwave radio broadcaster, is still having technical problems that result in entire broadcasts failing to make it on-air.<\/p>\n

The problems began\u00a0just over a month ago<\/a>\u00a0when some Voice of Korea broadcasts failed to appear at their\u00a0scheduled times<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now, a month later, the broadcaster is still failing to match its schedule. Today, on March 27, some of the scheduled transmissions were heard but others were missing.<\/p>\n

[…]The problems have also hit the DPRK\u2019s radio jamming operations, which attempt to block Korean-language foreign radio reception by broadcasting strong noise on the same frequency.<\/p>\n

The most severe jamming is usually targeted at \u201cEcho of Hope\u201d and \u201cVoice of the People,\u201d two stations that are believed to be broadcast by the South Korean government.<\/p>\n

[…]It\u2019s [also] worth noting that the DPRK\u2019s shortwave transmitters carrying the domestic service, largely for listeners in the country, have not been hit by such problems.<\/p>\n

The problems could be technical in nature, perhaps related to faulty equipment, or due to an electricity shortage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Curious, that these problems are occuring not so very long after the death of Kim Jong-il. Could it point to other problems with infrastructure under Kim Jong-un’s authority? These may be difficult times for those people living under North Korea’s repressive regime–= especially in light of recent food aid suspension<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Read the full article–and listen to radio clips of the interruptions–at North Korea Tech’s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A problem worth noting: Radio Korea has been having difficulty keeping their shortwave broadcasts on the air. As North Korea Tech points out, their domestic broadcasting arm is still operating: (Source: North Korea Tech via shrtwvr) Voice of Korea, the DPRK\u2019s international shortwave radio broadcaster, is still having technical problems that result in entire broadcasts […]<\/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":[56,81,3],"tags":[474,1021,4082,1022],"class_list":["post-3137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-current-events","category-news","tag-north-korea","tag-north-korea-tech","tag-shortwave-radio","tag-shortwave-radio-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-OB","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3775,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/north-korea-is-testing-digital-shortwave-broadcasting-via-drm\/","url_meta":{"origin":3137,"position":0},"title":"North Korea is testing digital shortwave broadcasting via DRM","author":"Thomas","date":"June 15, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"As Vatican Radio pulls out of DRM, North Korea moves in. 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