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Old July 20th 16, 12:13 AM posted to rec.radio.shortwave
fred k. engels fred k. engels is offline
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Default North Korean numbers station

25988 47038 97712 25204 97468 99214 95672 29666 38339 39115 45730 29639
15330 52054 21275 37880
85064 57750 64638 16154 59872 42268 21010 71449 40923 83253 59727 29582
23511 71765 93043 15841
07850 52307 04538 08023 97415 59601 24563 27562 82325 49257 73851 14583
38945 50535 76931 54853
25045 04941 22485

"Hils" wrote in message
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"North Korea’s state radio has recently broadcast strings of
indecipherable numbers, according to officials in Seoul, in a possible
resumption of a cold war-era method of sending coded messages to spies
operating in South Korea.

A female announcer at the radio station read numbers for two minutes on 24
June and 14 minutes on Friday, according to Seoul’s unification ministry
and national intelligence service (NIS). A copy of those comments provided
by the ministry included phrases such as “No 35 on Page 459” and “No 55 on
Page 913”. [...]"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...ers-code-spies

Probably the first time I've seen a number station reported in the
mainstream media.



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