[HCDX] Kuokuang Radio

["Jari Savolainen" <jari.savolainen@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Interesting story from 2002 at the Taipei Times website.
WRTH 2004 still lists Kuo Kuang BS in Taipei on 936 with
5kW as inactive. If it's the same station, what's so secret?
The transmitter location or the audiolines connected to the
Presidential Office?

Jari Savolainen
Kuusankoski
Finland

From
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/archives/2002/05/10/0000135427


Presidential Office formerly housed a secret radio station

By Tsai Ting-I
STAFF REPORTER
Friday, May 10, 2002,Page 3
The Presidential Office revealed yesterday that it used to house the
Kuokuang radio station (°ê¥ú¹q¥x), and that the station was established for
the primary purpose of ensuring that the president, vice president and top
military personnel would be able to address the nation in the event of war.

It also acknowledged for the first time that President Chen Shui-bian
(³¯¤ô«ó) closed the radio station in 2000.

"The Kuokuang radio station was established for wars and emergency purposes.
There are lines connected to the offices of president, vice president,
minister of national defense and chief of the general staff, to enable them
to talk to the people in the event of war and or other emergencies," said a
report published yesterday in President A-bian's Electronic Paper, the
president's Web-site.

Presidential Office spokesman James Huang (¶À§ÓªÚ) told the Taipei Times
that the office was releasing the previously classified information as part
of its effort to educate the public about the post of president and the
Presidential Office.

Chen closed the radio station in 2000 as part of a reform of the military
and in pursuit of his policy of removing Ministry of National Defense
offices from the Presidential Office, the electronic newspaper said.

The station, set up in June 1963, had belonged to the still operational
Voice of Han Broadcasting Network, a propaganda station owned by the defense
ministry that continues to broadcast to China.

Huang also said that the government believed that there was no longer any
need to keep the station for emergency purposes, given the highly advanced
current state of communications technology.



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