{"id":58692,"date":"2024-01-15T08:30:04","date_gmt":"2024-01-15T12:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=58692"},"modified":"2024-01-15T08:30:04","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T12:30:04","slug":"pyongyang-radio-appears-to-have-halted-broadcasting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/pyongyang-radio-appears-to-have-halted-broadcasting\/","title":{"rendered":"Pyongyang Radio appears to have halted broadcasting"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Dennis Dura, who shares the following article from The Korea Herald<\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n

N. Korea halts radio station known for sending coded messages to spies in Seoul (The Korea Herald)<\/h2>\n

North Korea is pressing ahead with measures to disband its inter-Korean organizations, apparently stopping a radio station previously used to send encrypted messages to its spies in South Korea.<\/p>\n

As of Saturday, the North appears to have stopped broadcasting the state-run Pyongyang Radio and cut off access to its website.<\/p>\n

The latest move comes after North Korean leader Kim Jong-un ordered “readjusting and reforming” its organizations in charge of inter-Korean affairs during a key Workers’ Party meeting last month amid growing cross-border tensions.<\/p>\n

Pyongyang Radio is known for broadcasting a series of mysterious numbers, presumed to be coded messages, giving directions to its agents operating in South Korea.<\/p>\n

The North resumed such broadcasts in 2016 after suspending them in 2000, when the two Koreas held their first historic summit. [Continue reading…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dennis Dura, who shares the following article from The Korea Herald: N. Korea halts radio station known for sending coded messages to spies in Seoul (The Korea Herald) North Korea is pressing ahead with measures to disband its inter-Korean organizations, apparently stopping a radio station previously used to send […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[960,3],"tags":[5875,474,10419],"class_list":["post-58692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-broadcasting","category-news","tag-dennis-dura","tag-north-korea","tag-pyongyang-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-fgE","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":25219,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/north-korea-activates-numbers-station-prior-to-potential-nuclear-test\/","url_meta":{"origin":58692,"position":0},"title":"North Korea activates numbers station?","author":"Thomas","date":"April 14, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to a number of SWLing Post contributors who've shared this particular item from The National Interest: North Korea Broadcasts Really Strange Messages As New Nuclear Weapons Test Looms Pyongyang is reportedly broadcasting encrypted messages reminiscent of those used to contact spies during the Cold War. 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