{"id":683,"date":"2010-03-17T13:08:44","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T13:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=683"},"modified":"2010-03-17T13:08:44","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T13:08:44","slug":"irish-times-reports-on-shortwave-broadcaster-targeting-north-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/irish-times-reports-on-shortwave-broadcaster-targeting-north-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish Times Reports On Shortwave Broadcaster Targeting North Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/kn-map.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-684\" title=\"kn-map\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/kn-map.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"179\" height=\"192\" \/><\/a>Free North Korea Radio is giving voice to a growing opposition to the dictatorship, writes David McNeill in Seoul.<\/p>\n<p>Building up a new network of stringers took time. Today, 10 freelance journalists provide reports from behind the bamboo curtain on a retainer of about $100 (\u20ac73) a month. They include a university professor, a teacher, at least two soldiers and a North Korean security agent&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;FNKR provides them with small digital recorders, which are used to record interviews, and mobile phones with signals that work across the Chinese border \u2013 Pyongyang\u2019s fledgling mobile- phone system was bought from Egypt and is incompatible with the South Korean network.<\/p>\n<p>The recordings are smuggled across the Chinese border and transported back to Seoul via a network of spies.<\/p>\n<p>The results detonate on air during Voices of the People , where the raw views of the North\u2019s citizens \u2013 electronically distorted \u2013 are broadcast back into their own country. Brainwashed automatons in so much reporting, the people heard here emerge as thrillingly human, alive and angry.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a title=\"Irish Times Report FNKR\" href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/newspaper\/world\/2010\/0315\/1224266295743.html\">Read full article in the Irish Times.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Other reports of Free North Korea Radio:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"CNN FNKR\" href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2008\/WORLD\/asiapcf\/02\/27\/cho.dissidentradio\/\">CNN report<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"NPR Report FNKR\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=6376561\">National Public Radio report<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Irish Times Report FNKR\" href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/newspaper\/world\/2010\/0315\/1224266295743.html\">Irish Times<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Free North Korea Radio is giving voice to a growing opposition to the dictatorship, writes David McNeill in Seoul. Building up a new network of stringers took time. Today, 10 freelance journalists provide reports from behind the bamboo curtain on a retainer of about $100 (\u20ac73) a month. They include a university professor, a teacher, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[8,56,3],"tags":[245,243,244,4082],"class_list":["post-683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-broadcasters","category-news","tag-fnkr","tag-free-north-korea-radio","tag-irish-times","tag-shortwave-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-b1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1357,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/open-radio-for-north-korea-hopes-to-contribute-to-gradual-change-in-north-korea\/","url_meta":{"origin":683,"position":0},"title":"Open Radio for North Korea hopes to contribute to gradual change in North Korea","author":"Thomas","date":"July 21, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Without a doubt, North Korea is one part of the world that is information starved. 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