Posted on 03/22/2010 10:08:22 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Rights group uses satphones for N. Korean news
* Published: 22/03/2010 at 01:55 PM
* Online news: Asia
A Seoul-based rights group said Monday it has supplied contacts in North Korea with satellite phones to expand news coverage of the secretive communist state and minimise the use of riskier cellphones.
Free North Korea Radio, run by North Korean defectors, said it gave satphones to "correspondents" in the North five months ago to try to break down the wall of secrecy.
Several rights groups in South Korea have contacts who relay news via Chinese cellphones with pre-paid cards, but these work only in border areas.
Free North Korea Radio, which broadcasts to the North on short wave as well as running an Internet service, said the satphones give it access to information from more parts of the country
"Three satellite phones, on top of cellphones, have been in use since last October to bring more live and direct news out of North Korea," its head Kim Seong-Min told AFP.
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I hope these phones also have photographic capability. A lot don’t.
After seeing the few photos I’ve seen of NK, I would rather live in the documented (I forget her name) Chernobyl area.
They also featured interviews with N. Koreans visiting(or escaped to) China, recorded in an audio file.
It is one thing to read about interview from news article, and quite another to hear interview in current N. Korean citizen's real voice. This will drive Kim Jong-il crazy, and he will respond with stepped-up surveillance and harsh crackdown on people in the know, which will further demoralize ruling elites.
It almost looks like a psyop operation.
Bump.
Thanks for the ping.
BTTT
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