{"id":31788,"date":"2018-04-27T08:33:28","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T12:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=31788"},"modified":"2018-04-27T08:33:28","modified_gmt":"2018-04-27T12:33:28","slug":"despite-crackdown-north-koreans-seek-foreign-radio-broadcasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/despite-crackdown-north-koreans-seek-foreign-radio-broadcasts\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite crackdown, North Koreans seek foreign radio broadcasts"},"content":{"rendered":"

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(Source: DailyNK<\/a> via Andrea Borgnino<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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North Koreans continue to seek out foreign radio despite crackdown<\/h2>\n

Police in North Korea have recently focused their attention on cracking down on listeners of South Korean radio broadcasts in another sign of the government’s dual-approach to warming ties with the South, according to a source inside the country.<\/p>\n

Speaking from Ryanggang Province on April 24, a source told Daily NK that “police have begun inspections of households possessing radios,\u201d explaining that one method used to restrict radio usage includes applying stickers to the tuning buttons to prevent users from finding foreign broadcasts.<\/p>\n

State-approved radios in North Korea are fixed to prevent tuning to non-official stations, but the authorities have used additional methods in recent times to handle the increasing amount of personal radios in the country. In addition to radio controls, authorities also place heavy restrictions on DVD players, phones, televisions, and other media devices.[…]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Continue reading the full article at the DailyNK.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Source: DailyNK via Andrea Borgnino) North Koreans continue to seek out foreign radio despite crackdown Police in North Korea have recently focused their attention on cracking down on listeners of South Korean radio broadcasts in another sign of the government’s dual-approach to warming ties with the South, according to a source inside the country. Speaking […]<\/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":[869,3781,3],"tags":[2996,4871,1871,474],"class_list":["post-31788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clandestine","category-fm","category-news","tag-andrea-borgnino","tag-dailynk","tag-dprk","tag-north-korea"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-8gI","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17877,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/north-korea-intensifies-shortwave-jamming\/","url_meta":{"origin":31788,"position":0},"title":"North Korea intensifies shortwave jamming","author":"Thomas","date":"March 22, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: DailyNK via Andrea Borgnino) North Korea has been from the beginning of March continually signal jamming radio broadcasts on the shortwave frequency used by the South Korean non-profit broadcaster Unification Media Group (UMG). 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