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Voice of Korea B11 schedule
North Korea’s international shortwave broadcaster, the Voice of Korea, will use the following schedule for English language broadcasts from October 31, 2011, until late March 2012. The programs appear to be refreshed during the local Korean day with each programming cycle beginning with the 1000 GMT broadcast. The news output, which has not been observed to…
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VOK on US hacking
The Voice of Korea, North Korea’s international radio broadcaster, recently aired a commentary that took aim at several hacking incidents in the U.S., but the true aim of the piece appears to be the U.S. Department of Defense’s recently published Strategy for Operating in Cyberspace. The U.S. document, a declassified version of which is available…
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Coding the Kims
If you’ve spent time browsing some of North Korea’s official websites and looked closely enough, you might have spotted a slight change in the typeface every time Kim Jong Il or Kim Il Sung is mentioned. Your eyes are not deceiving you. Official North Korean websites contain a custom style rule written into the page…
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Kujang shortwave transmitter site
If you’ve ever listened to The Voice of Korea on shortwave, you’ve probably heard broadcasts from this transmitter site. Kujang is one of the largest transmitter locations in the DPRK with, according to official records, 5 shortwave transmitters each capable of delivering a 200kW signal. That’s powerful enough to reach most corners of the world,…
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Voice of Korea website due Friday
North Korea’s international broadcasting service, The Voice of Korea, will launch a website on Friday, according to a domestic radio report transcribed by BBC Monitoring. (The site has launched a day early. See below for update.) The site is due to open on Friday, which is Kim Il Sung’s birthday, and will be available at…
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Voice of Korea English A11 schedule
Voice of Korea, the DPRK’s international shortwave broadcasting service, is on the air everyday in several languages. The English language broadcasts appear to be refreshed during the day (local time) with each programming cycle beginning with the evening broadcast and then getting repeated overnight. The news output is similar to the English-language stories from KCNA,…
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Voice of Korea on Yeonpyeong shelling
The Voice of Korea, the DPRK’s international shortwave radio service, broadcast on Nov. 24 its first report in English on the shelling of Yeonpyeong island. The shelling occurred on the afternoon of Nov. 23 and the radio report comes 24 hours after a similar report was carried in English on the Korea Central News Agency…
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Voice of Korea English B10 schedule
Voice of Korea, the DPRK’s international shortwave broadcasting service, is on the air everyday in several languages. The English language broadcasts appear to be refreshed during the day (local time) with each programming cycle beginning with the evening broadcast and then getting repeated overnight. The news output is similar to the English-language stories from KCNA,…
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Korean Central Broadcasting Station
The Korean Central Broadcasting Station (KCBS) (Korean: ??????, Chinese: ??????, Japanese: ??????) is the main domestic radio network in the DPRK. It sits under the Central Broadcasting Committee of the DPRK (called the Radio and Television Committee of the DPRK until 2009). KCBS broadcasts from 5am to 3am local time via a network of mediumwave…
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Radio Wars across the 38th parallel
Everday North and South Korea send news, information and propaganda across the 38th parallel. This video looks at that battle of the airwaves.
