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Voice of Korea on nuclear test
Here’s how North Korea’s international shortwave radio broadcaster, the Voice of Korea, announced news of the nuclear test in English. Reception this morning was poor so the audio isn’t very clear. The music in the background isn’t an intended part of the broadcast, but appears to be the remenants of an old broadcast on the…
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Ranking Eric Schmidt’s Pyongyang trip
Google Chairman Eric Schmidt is back from Pyongyang. His visit made headlines around the world, but what about inside North Korea? I took a look at the main 8pm evening news on North Korean TV to see where the visit ranked. Details of Eric Schmidt’s movements were reported on both Wednesday and Thursday. Domestic news…
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North Korea launches radio program targeted at South
North Korea launched a new radio broadcast targeted at South Korea on Saturday morning. The two-hour long “Echo of Unification” broadcast is expected to be broadcast three times a day and will go out over some transmitters that usually carry state radio programs. Details of the broadcast were first made public on the Uriminzokkiri website,…
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Voice of Korea winter 2012/13 schedule
Many international radio stations, including the Voice of Korea, just made their semi-annual schedule change to accomodate seasonal broadcasting conditions. The radio station broadcasts two programs a day, each around 57 minutes long. Program one is carried on broadcasts aimed at South East Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, South Africa and Central and…
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Voice of Korea gets an e-mail address
Voice of Korea, the DPRK’s international shortwave radio service, has started telling its listeners it has an email address. The radio station opened a web site more than a year ago but never advertised an email address and continued to ask listeners to send messages via postal mail. Now it says it is accepting emails…
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South Korean Defense Ministry steps up DPRK broadcasts
A radio station believed to be operated by South Korea’s Ministry of National Defense has strengthened its radio broadcasts to North Korea, according to reports from radio monitors in Japan. MND Radio added extra shortwave frequencies from August 9 in an apparent attempt to get around the DPRK’s heavy jamming of its signal. The current…
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North Korea apparently testing digital radio
North Korea appears to be testing digital radio broadcasting. Hiroshi Inoue, a radio monitor in Japan, received on Wednesday the country’s international radio service, Voice of Korea, broadcasting on shortwave using DRM (Digital Radio Mondiale). DRM is a digital broadcasting technology developed for use on AM and shortwave services. He posted a couple of clips…
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Voice of Korea mid 2012 full schedule
Previously I listed the English-language broadcasting schedule of Voice of Korea, North Korea’s international shortwave broadcasting station. Here’s the full schedule of all services, listed by time and then by language. The schedule comes courtesy of Arnulf Piontek in Berlin, Germany. The schedule shows the time in GMT (UTC), the language, the frequencies in kilohertz…
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North Koreans gaining more access to foreign media, says report
Cracks in the information wall that has long surrounded North Korea are increasingly allowing citizens in the country more exposure to foreign media, according to a report published on Thursday. The report, produced by Intermedia for the U.S. Department of State, was based on surveys of several hundred defectors, refugees and travelers, and found “substantial…
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Voice of Korea mid-2012 schedule
North Korea’s international shortwave broadcaster, the Voice of Korea, will use the following schedule for English language broadcasts from April 30, 2012. The radio station broadcasts two programs a day, each around 57 minutes long. Program one is carried on broadcasts aimed at South East Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, South Africa and…
