{"id":9643,"date":"2014-05-17T06:31:24","date_gmt":"2014-05-17T10:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=9643"},"modified":"2014-05-17T06:31:24","modified_gmt":"2014-05-17T10:31:24","slug":"homemade-radios-a-voice-of-hope-in-north-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/homemade-radios-a-voice-of-hope-in-north-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"Homemade radios: a voice of hope in North Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> readers Anil and Monty for sharing this report <a title=\"CNN\" href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/video\/data\/2.0\/video\/world\/2014\/05\/13\/pkg-hancocks-north-korea-defector-radio.cnn.html\" target=\"_blank\">from CNN International<\/a>:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/video\/api\/embed.html#\/video\/world\/2014\/05\/13\/pkg-hancocks-north-korea-defector-radio.cnn\" width=\"416\" height=\"234\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post readers Anil and Monty for sharing this report from CNN International:<\/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":[869,3],"tags":[2901,1871,474,1135],"class_list":["post-9643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clandestine","category-news","tag-cnn-international","tag-dprk","tag-north-korea","tag-north-korea-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-2vx","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":28040,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/north-korea-now-broadcasting-in-drm\/","url_meta":{"origin":9643,"position":0},"title":"North Korea now broadcasting in DRM","author":"Thomas","date":"September 3, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Mark Fahey, who writes: A message to contacts in North Asia (Japan \/ Korea etc)... 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