{"id":36768,"date":"2019-04-03T06:45:15","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T10:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=36768"},"modified":"2019-04-03T06:45:15","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T10:45:15","slug":"an-aircraft-hijacking-story-with-a-shortwave-twist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/an-aircraft-hijacking-story-with-a-shortwave-twist\/","title":{"rendered":"An aircraft hijacking story with “a shortwave twist”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Mark Fahey, who writes:<\/p>\n

[A] great aircraft hijacking story with a shortwave twist….<\/p>\n

Read the full article from NK News<\/a> on the link below–the shortwave twists are here in two interesting paragraphs…<\/p>\n

“Two fight attendants from the YS-11 eventually emerged as announcers on the \u201cVoice of the National Salvation,\u201d a North Korean propaganda radio station targeting South Korean audiences.”<\/p>\n

“The station claimed to be a voice of the alleged South Korean underground Juche resistance, and thus it badly needed broadcasters who were capable of speaking polished, Seoul-style Korean.”<\/p>\n

Take to the skies: North Korea’s role in the mysterious hijacking of KAL YS-11 | NK News – North Korea News<\/strong><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.nknews.org\/2019\/03\/take-to-the-skies-north-koreas-role-in-the-mysterious-hijacking-of-kal-ys-11\/<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Thank you, Mark. I was not aware of this story. It was too bad for those flight attendants that they had a skill the North Korea propaganda machine needed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Mark Fahey, who writes: [A] great aircraft hijacking story with a shortwave twist…. Read the full article from NK News on the link below–the shortwave twists are here in two interesting paragraphs… “Two fight attendants from the YS-11 eventually emerged as announcers on the \u201cVoice of the National Salvation,\u201d […]<\/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":[8,3,43],"tags":[7139,1871,7701,1647,2664,474],"class_list":["post-36768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-aviation","tag-dprk","tag-kal-ys-11-hijacking","tag-mark-fahey","tag-nk-news","tag-north-korea"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-9z2","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":38123,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/the-third-network-investigating-north-koreas-infamous-cable-radio\/","url_meta":{"origin":36768,"position":0},"title":"The Third Network: Investigating North Korea’s infamous cable radio","author":"Thomas","date":"June 7, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"The NK News has published an article about North Korea's \"Third Network\": the infamous cable network radio installed in many homes and that, some report, cannot be turned off. 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