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The Importance of Foreign Information Access in North Korea
For decades, North Koreans have relied on illicit foreign information to provide news, information, entertainment, knowledge and — perhaps most importantly — ideas they would otherwise never have access to. But since the beginning of this year, the amount of radio and television programming being beamed into North Korea has plummeted. Radio broadcasting is down…
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North Korea’s Revised Radio Wave Control Law
A key North Korean law that provides the technical basis for much of the country’s censorship of foreign broadcast and communications networks has been expanded in scope. The Radio Wave Control Law (전파관리법) previously covered radio equipment but a revised version published in 2023 includes electronic devices, including computers. The revisions add a lot more…
