[HCDX] Regime again jams foreign-based radio stations

["Zacharias Liangas " <greekdx@xxxxxxxxx>]

Regime again jams foreign-based radio stations
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=22259
Reporters Without Borders today deplored the North Korean 
government's resumption on 11 May of its jamming of independent and 
dissident radio stations broadcasting in Korean from outside and called 
on the South Korean government and the international community to 
defend their right to broadcast freely.

"North and South Korea are celebrating the historic reopening of a 
railway line between the two countries, yet the Pyongyang regime is 
trying to stop North Koreans from getting news other than that served 
up by the regime," the worldwide press freedom organisation said. 
"This is a violation of international law."

The programmes of radio stations Free North Korea Radio, Voice of 
America, Open Radio for North Korea, Radio Free Asia and Radio Free 
Chosun (all based in South Korea or the United States) are those 
targeted, according to the Northeast Asian Broadcasting Institute and 
the International Shortwave Club.

North Korea's ruling Labour Party, the only party allowed, last month 
denounced news from the outside world that allegedly aimed to 
destabilise the regime and ordered the security forces to stop all video 
cassettes, written material, mobile phones and CDs from entering the 
country.

The jamming may have been part of these measures or, an Open 
Radio official told Reporters Without Borders, may have been linked to 
the reopening of the railway. Jamming of these short-wave stations had 
substantially declined since last July.

North Korea's serious energy crisis apparently prevents the regime 
jamming all frequencies round the clock.

North Korea is ranked bottom in the Reporters Without Borders 
worldwide Press Freedom Index.
--also - 
N Korea resumes jamming overseas radio
(AFP)

24 May 2007


SEOUL - Communist North Korea has resumed its jamming of Korean-
language broadcasts by independent and dissident radio stations, an 
international media watchdog has said.

The jamming of the short-wave stations had substantially declined 
since last July, apparently due to a serious energy shortage, but 
resumed on May 11, Reporters Without Borders said in a statement.

The Paris-based watchdog urged the South Korean government and 
the international community to defend the right to broadcast freely.

?North and South Korea are celebrating the historic reopening of a 
railway line between the two countries, yet the Pyongyang regime is 
trying to stop North Koreans from getting news other than that served 
up by the regime,? it said.

?This is a violation of international law.?

Free North Korea Radio, Voice of America, Open Radio for North 
Korea, Radio Free Asia and Radio Free Chosun are being targeted, it 
quoted the Northeast Asian Broadcasting Institute and the International 
Shortwave Club as saying.

All the stations are based in South Korea or the United States.

Reporters Without Borders said the ruling party last month denounced 
foreign news allegedly aimed at destabilising the regime, and ordered a 
crackdown on video cassettes, written material, mobile phones and 
CDs from overseas.

The jamming may have been linked to the crackdown or to the 
reopening of cross-border railways, an Open Radio official told the 
watchdog.

Last week, trains from North and South Korea crossed the heavily 
fortified border for the first time in half a century, in test runs of the 
lines. North Korea has refused so far to authorise a regular service.

Intelligence sources said in February that North Korea was cracking 
down on a flood of South Korean pop culture.

Analysts say smuggled DVDs and mobile phones with prepaid cards 
are weakening the hardline regime?s previous iron grip over information.


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Zacharias Liangas , Thessaloniki Greece 
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