Clandestine station schedule updates

Clandestine Stations
Broadcast daily unless otherwise indicated
All times UTC

Targets to North Korea
Echo of Hope (VOH)
Korean
0500-0000  3985, 5995, 6350
0000-0100  3985, 5995, 6350
0900-0000  4885, 6250, 9100
0000-0500  4885, 6250, 9100

Free North Korea Radio
Korean
1200-1400  11510 (Uzbekistan transmitter)
(ex 1200-1300)
1900-2100  7550 (Uzbekistan transmitter)

National Unity Radio
Korean
1800-1955  774 mw (entry deleted)

Radio Free Korea
Korean
0250-0000  1143 mw
0000-0100  1143 mw

Voice of Freedom (new station entry)
Korean
1400-1430  11510 (Uzbekistan transmitter)
2100-2130  7550 (Uzbekistan transmitter)
Station is a new religious station, and should not be confused with the current station of Voice of Freedom. Produced by North Korean Christian Missionary.

Voice of the People
Korean
24 hours  3480, 3910, 3930, 4450, 6520, 6600
(ex 0500-2300)
(WRTH-July update 2019)
(Teak Publishing)

Voice of Korea to launch website

Text of report by state-run North Korean radio on 12 April

The Voice of Korea [VOK] will open its Internet homepage. The VOK will open its Internet homepage.


Dear audience,
The VOK will newly open its Internet homepage from Sun’s Day on 15 April, the birth anniversary of great leader [suryo'ng] President Kim Il Sung [Kim Il-so'ng]. The Internet homepage address can be located at www.vok.rep.kp.

We notify you that the VOK will newly open its Internet homepage from Sun’s Day on 15 April, the birth anniversary of great leader President Kim Il Sung. The Internet homepage address can be located at www.vok.rep.kp.

The VOK’s Internet homepage, to be launched anew, will further strengthen relations with the audience.

(Source: Central Broadcasting Station, Pyongyang, in Korean 2100 gmt 12 Apr 11 via BBC Monitoring)
(R Netherlands Media Network Weblog)

North Korean Website List
http://www.northkoreatech.org/the-north-korean-website-list/

North Korea threatens military action

North Korea threatens military action over South Korea campaign

North Korea will fire across a land border with South Korea if Seoul continues its anti-North psychological campaign, the North’s official media said today ahead of a joint military drill between the United States and South Korea. South Korea’s military has been dropping leaflets into North Korea about democracy protests in Egypt as part of a psychological campaign and the South Korean military also sent food, medicines and radios for residents in a bid to encourage North Koreans to think about change.

“The on-going psychological warfare by the puppet military in the frontline area is a treacherous deed and a wanton challenge to the demand of the times and desire of all the fellow countrymen to bring about a new phase of peaceful reunification and national prosperity through all-round dialogue and negotiations,” KCNA news agency said. “We officially notify that our army will stage a direct fire at the Rimjin Pavilion and other sources of the anti-DPRK psychological warfare to destroy them on the principle of self-defence, if such actions last despite our repeated warning.”
(Source: Reuters/R Netherlands Media Network Weblog)

New web broadcast for North Korean defectors to begin in August

29th July 2010
The first Internet radio broadcasting tailored specifically to help North Korean defectors live more comfortably in the South will begin next month, a defectors' advocacy group said Wednesday.

The Seoul-based Hana Culture, which represents the interests of the defectors, said the Internet radio service, tentatively titled "Tongil(unification) Hanmadang," will begin airing on Aug. 15.

Lee Geum-ryong, an official at Hana Culture, said the broadcasting will be "free of political intonation."

"We simply want to help defectors settle down here," Lee said. "We want to help them overcome loneliness and homesickness that they may feel while trying to get adjusted to the new surroundings."

Free North Korea Radio, a Seoul-based station run by a North Korean defector, recently took over Hana Culture and will be managing the Internet broadcasting.

The broadcast will be aired twice a day, from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. and from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., and can be heard live on Hana Culture's Web site at www.hanapd.com or accessed in the site's archives.

One of the service's main features will be advertising employment opportunities here, a major concern for defectors trying to settle in the South.

A government report in 2009 showed that only about four out of 10 defectors were employed. Another survey last year said North Korean defectors were about three times more likely to be unemployed than South Koreans.

This March, the labor ministry pledged to increase financial aid for defectors who find a job and stay employed for at least 30 days after completing the state-run job training program.

The broadcasts will also teach defectors about the differences in language and cultures between the two countries, and provide the latest news from north of the border, the group added.

Nearly 20,000 North Koreans have arrived in the South since the 1950-1953 Korean War ended, according to the Unification Ministry.
(Source: GNA/http://bit.ly/cheNjE via Yimber Gaviria, Colombia/playdx2003)

South Korea delays resumption of propaganda broadcast

South Korea has delayed plans to begin anti-North Korea propaganda. Experts speculated that two factors - the safety of South Koreans working at the joint Gaeseong Industrial Complex in the North and rising tensions on the peninsula - probably prompted the government to weigh the timing of the execution of the psychological operations (PSYOPs).

The Ministry of National Defence on Sunday put off plans to drop anti-North Korea leaflets that were originally scheduled to be distributed across the border late last week. Earlier, military authorities announced they would resume PSYOPs aimed at “sowing the seed of doubt” among North Korean residents, with the spread of propaganda leaflets and radio broadcasts via loudspeakers near the Military Demarcation Line. South Korea halted PSYOPs in 2004 when the late former President Roh Moo-hyun was in office, following the repeated requests from the North during military talks.

Today, the defence ministry also hinted at delaying the plan to broadcast the “Voice of Freedom” programme over loudspeakers. The project was scheduled to be implemented in early June. “We will consider several factors before going ahead with the resumption of the anti-North Korean propaganda project. The military will decide later when to commence those measures,” a military source said on condition of anonymity.

The announcement came after concerns about the safety of South Korean workers at the Gaeseong complex were raised. Last week, North Korea issued multiple statements, threatening to close the Gaeseong project if South Korea resumes the PSYOP and to fire at the loudspeakers that were to be set up near the border. The North’s military also warned they would not guarantee the safety of South Koreans crossing the border, which was ensured under the military accords signed between the two sides in the past.
(Source: Korea Times/Radio Netherlands Media Network Weblog)

A small shortwave station run by a defector ....

A small shortwave station run by a defector has one small mission: to bring demoncracy to North Korea

Free North Korea Radio is giving voice to a growing opposition to the dictatorship, writes David McNeill in Seoul

BEGGARS HAVE returned to the streets of Pyongyang, income disparities are growing thanks to a botched currency reform, and simmering anger at the government threatens to boil over.

Ordinary North Koreans are increasingly waking from their long nightmare and blinking in the light of a once unthinkable scenario: life without ailing leader Kim Jong-il or his family of hereditary parasites.

“He is a hypocrite who only cares about himself,” one told Free North Korea Radio (FNKR). “We would be better off without him.”

Additional story at:
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2010/0315/1224266295743.html
(Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, India)

Free North Korea Radio gives airtime to North Koreans

A Seoul-based Internet radio station that broadcasts to North Korea said it will air actual voices of North Korean residents for the first time in a feature programme this week. Free North Korea Radio, run by North Korean defectors, began shortwave broadcasts across the border in 2004 and now transmits programmes for five hours a day.

The radio station plans to air accounts of North Korean complaints on the country’s economic policies in a seven-minute feature programme to be aired this Friday and Saturday. “There are four private stations in South Korea that broadcast to the North, but it will be the first time actual voices of North Koreans are being aired,” said Kim Seong-min, founder of the Free North Korea Radio. “We plan to air programs with live voices of North Koreans every week from now on.”

Stringers in the North recorded the voices of residents near the border with China using hidden cameras and mini recorders, Kim said, adding that he could not disclose the video images of the interviewees for safety reasons.

In a clip posted on the broadcaster’s website, six North Koreans complain about the recent currency denomination, market crackdown and mandatory manure production system. An elderly lady talks about how each household is required to produce eight tons of barnyard manure. Four men and women complain that they are no longer allowed to sell anything apart from agricultural products in the markets due to the government crackdown on the free market. An elderly woman also criticizes the government after authorities took away her goods in the market.
(Source: Korea Herald/R Netherlands Media Network Weblog)