{"id":9131,"date":"2014-03-29T08:50:19","date_gmt":"2014-03-29T12:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=9131"},"modified":"2014-03-29T08:50:19","modified_gmt":"2014-03-29T12:50:19","slug":"the-voice-of-korea-and-an-inspirational-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/the-voice-of-korea-and-an-inspirational-story\/","title":{"rendered":"The Voice of Korea and an inspirational story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/FlagNorthKorea1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6186\" alt=\"FlagNorthKorea\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/FlagNorthKorea1-300x215.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/FlagNorthKorea1-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/FlagNorthKorea1-100x71.jpg 100w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/FlagNorthKorea1.jpg 394w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Many thanks to Frank, <a href=\"http:\/\/shortwavearchive.com\" target=\"_blank\">a contributor at the Shortwave Radio Audio Archive<\/a>, for this recording of the Voice of Korea&#8217;s English language service.<\/p>\n<p>Frank recorded VOK from his home in Europe on March 27, 2014, on 7,570 kHz, starting at 21:00 UTC, using a Kenwood R-5000 receiver and a Wellbrook ALA 1530+ antenna.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_10_1_1_1396054542085_21237\"><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/VoiceOfKorea_March2014\/Voice_Of_Korea_%5BNorth%5D_in_English_27_March_2014_7570kHz_2100GMT_%5Bkuj%2C200kW%5D.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/VoiceOfKorea_March2014\/Voice_Of_Korea_%5BNorth%5D_in_English_27_March_2014_7570kHz_2100GMT_%5Bkuj%2C200kW%5D.mp3\">Click here to download the recording as an MP3<\/a>, or simply listen via the embedded player below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/VoiceOfKorea_March2014\" height=\"30\" width=\"500\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Of course, the Voice of Korea is all about broadcasting hard-core propaganda&#8211;a type of broadcast I find incredibly fascinating.<em> But let there be no mistake<\/em>, to live in the DPRK is to live under one of the world&#8217;s most oppressive regimes. If you want to hear a moving, inspirational story about one North Korean woman&#8217;s escape from the DPRK, check out<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/hyeonseo_lee_my_escape_from_north_korea.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Hyeonseo Lee&#8217;s: My escape from North Korea, a TED Talk<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PdxPCeWw75k\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Remember, you can subscribe and download the Shortwave Radio Audio Archive collection (free!) as a podcast via\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/shortwave-radio-audio-archive\/id654690909\" target=\"_blank\">iTunes<\/a>\u00a0or the SWAA\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/shortwavearchive.com\/archive?format=rss\" target=\"_blank\">RSS feed<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to Frank, a contributor at the Shortwave Radio Audio Archive, for this recording of the Voice of Korea&#8217;s English language service. Frank recorded VOK from his home in Europe on March 27, 2014, on 7,570 kHz, starting at 21:00 UTC, using a Kenwood R-5000 receiver and a Wellbrook ALA 1530+ antenna. Click here [&hellip;]<\/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":[56,3,1850,746,43,1167],"tags":[1871,2692,1846,474,4119,2479,2600,727,728],"class_list":["post-9131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-news","category-propaganda","category-recordings","category-shortwave-radio","category-whats-on-shortwave","tag-dprk","tag-hyeonseo-lee","tag-kim-jong-un","tag-north-korea","tag-propaganda","tag-shortwave-radio-audio-archive","tag-swaa","tag-voice-of-korea","tag-vok"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-2nh","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13590,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/shortwave-radio-recordings-voice-of-korea-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":9131,"position":0},"title":"Shortwave Radio Recordings: Voice of Korea","author":"Thomas","date":"June 13, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to Frank, a contributor at the Shortwave Radio Audio Archive, for this recording of the Voice of Korea\u2019s English language service. 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