SEOUL, South Korea - (KRT) - The U.S. government is preparing to smuggle
tiny radios into North Korea as part of a newly financed program to break
down the country's isolation.

http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/new...0167061.htm?1c

Any ideas as to what kind of radios? Maybe like the RadioShack 'Flavor'
radios the US dumped on Haiti perhaps?

RG

RadioGuy wrote:

SEOUL, South Korea - (KRT) - The U.S. government is preparing to smuggle
tiny radios into North Korea as part of a newly financed program to break
down the country's isolation.

http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/new...0167061.htm?1c

Any ideas as to what kind of radios? Maybe like the RadioShack 'Flavor'
radios the US dumped on Haiti perhaps?

RG



I actually found a Flavoradio in a thrift store and paid the $1.98 and
took it home. Not much of a performer, but it sure looks
interesting-it's bright orange. I guess in a country as small as Haiti,
you wouldn't need much of a radio. But NK is bigger, and technology is
more advanced than in the Flavoradio days, so I would suspect that you
could make an interesting radio to put in a small package that would
suffice to pick up tx beamed from the South.




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"RadioGuy" wrote in message ...
SEOUL, South Korea - (KRT) - The U.S. government is preparing to smuggle
tiny radios into North Korea as part of a newly financed program to break
down the country's isolation.

http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/new...0167061.htm?1c

Any ideas as to what kind of radios? Maybe like the RadioShack 'Flavor'
radios the US dumped on Haiti perhaps?

RG




U.S. set to sneak radios to N. Korea
Smuggled receivers would get non-official broadcasts, but ally S.
Korea has concerns.


By Tim Johnson
Knight Ridder Newspapers
November 13, 2004


SEOUL, South Korea -- The U.S. government is preparing to smuggle tiny
radios into North Korea as part of a newly financed program to break
down the country's isolation.

Washington will spend up to $2 million annually for four years to
boost radio broadcasts toward North Korea and infiltrate mini-radios
across its borders.

North Korea, probably the most isolated country in the world, has only
radios that are rigged to capture broadcasts lionizing the nation's
Stalinist leadership. The broadcasts also blare from outdoor
loudspeakers.

The U.S. plan to smuggle small radios into North Korea is outlined in
the North Korean Human Rights Act, which President Bush signed into
law Oct. 18. The sweeping act provides money to private humanitarian
groups to assist defectors, extends refugee status to fleeing North
Koreans and sets in motion a plan to boost broadcasts to North Korea
and get receivers into the country.

North Korea's Kim Jong Il regime says the radios will air "rotten
imperialist reactionary culture" to undermine the country.

The human rights act, in its broad scope, also has encountered
opposition from President Roh Moo-hyun, South Korea's center-left
leader. Officials under Roh say the act will stiffen Pyongyang's
resistance to the world and hinder already stalled talks to get North
Korea to abandon its efforts to build a nuclear arsenal.

They scoff at the U.S. plan to smuggle in radios, saying it's a
good-hearted idea but one that will worsen the plight of North
Koreans. Anyone captured with a radio, they said, might face prison.

Supporters of the tactic argue that it offers a ray of hope to a
populace that's hungry for news amid food shortages and an acute
humanitarian crisis.

"There's an incredible desire among North Korean people to know what's
going on," said Suzanne Scholte, head of the Defense Forum Foundation,
a nonprofit group that focuses on U.S. policy toward North Korea.

A small number of clandestine radios are in the country, sent in by
helium-filled balloons deployed by South Korean religious groups or
brought in by traders across North Korea's border with China.

"Some people listen to South Korean broadcasts under their blankets,"
said Lee Gui-ok, a young North Korean mother who fled to China in 1999
and later moved to Seoul.

And all this should remove any shadow of a doubt from the world mind that
the US is totally incapable of minding its own business. I wonder how long
it will be before some other countries start their own "ad campaigns" aimed
at educating the sheep-like mind of the average American that, regardless of
what their government tells them, there is a real world outside its borders
with real people and real issues of their own.

The North Korean Stalinist-style government is not a good thing, but then
neither is a US government stated policy of "perpetual war". Didn't a
wiseman once say something about putting one's own house in order before
undertaking the cleaning of someone elses?


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pulse wrote:

And all this should remove any shadow of a doubt from the world mind that
the US is totally incapable of minding its own business.

Read up on the coups the US created in the Third World in the 50s to
keep nations from "falling to the Communists". Especially where the US
overthrew the democratically elected government of Guatemala in 1954 in
order to install a right wing dictatorship that would be more
accomodating to United Fruit Company.

I wonder how long
it will be before some other countries start their own "ad campaigns" aimed
at educating the sheep-like mind of the average American that, regardless of
what their government tells them, there is a real world outside its borders
with real people and real issues of their own.

If such a campaign starts, I'll be there to log it, and I'm sure some of
you will try to QSL it. If France airdrops radios on the US, I'll
grab one and see what it has to say.



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DOn't hijack a thread with your political propaganda.

P L O N K !!!

On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 04:31 pm, tommyknocker posted to
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pulse wrote:

And all this should remove any shadow of a doubt from the world mind that
the US is totally incapable of minding its own business.

Read up on the coups the US created in the Third World in the 50s to
keep nations from "falling to the Communists". Especially where the US
overthrew the democratically elected government of Guatemala in 1954 in
order to install a right wing dictatorship that would be more
accomodating to United Fruit Company.

The US turn over of Vietnam to the French after WW2 played right into the
communist hands. The ridiculous pillage post-Spanish domination of Cuba
was like exchanging one thug for another. Castro isn't exactly my cup of
tea, but neither are the loony "exiles" in Florida. We also had Pinochet
in Chile, the Shah regime handed over from the British and supported by the
US, and presently the prop-up of the fascist Saudi regime; all in the
interest of making a buck. I saw a list somewhere of "intervention" by the
US militarily, it was around 150 times during the period the Soviets did it
8 times. 735 military bases around the world must help as jumping off
points for this sort of "adventure". I'm sure the 19th century Brits and
French in the Great Game would have understood the present adventures well.

"Capitalism and communism are both the ******* children of Christianity",
(Jostein Gaarder). None show the way to heaven, on earth, nor anywhere
else. if we could get it through our and our leaders' thick stupid head
that all people want is to have a decent life, we wouldn't breed nitwits
who want to screw everyone economically or by shoving their narrow-minded
doctrine down our throats with the barrel of a gun or with the blast of a
bomb from 30 thousand feet or in a rusted out car.

I wonder how long
it will be before some other countries start their own "ad campaigns"
aimed at educating the sheep-like mind of the average American that,
regardless of what their government tells them, there is a real world
outside its borders with real people and real issues of their own.

If such a campaign starts, I'll be there to log it, and I'm sure some of
you will try to QSL it. If France airdrops radios on the US, I'll
grab one and see what it has to say.

Read up on the coups the US created

snip

Do you actually know what a coup d'état is?


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Hmmm...sounds like a good idea to me. Probably will be hand generator
or solar powered since batteries will be hard to come by.

"RadioGuy" wrote in message ...
SEOUL, South Korea - (KRT) - The U.S. government is preparing to smuggle
tiny radios into North Korea as part of a newly financed program to break
down the country's isolation.

http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/new...0167061.htm?1c

Any ideas as to what kind of radios? Maybe like the RadioShack 'Flavor'
radios the US dumped on Haiti perhaps?

RG

Odd, isn't it? Most "Americans" are funding this stuff every time they
concede money to the government in the form of the tax dollar. It's bizarre
how few ever question where that money goes or why it should be taken in the
first place when the Forefathers of this nation went to the extreme of
dumping tea into Boston harbour because they were mad about taxation. What
happened to that sort of American?

The other guy wants to talk about coups. Hehe; what sort of government does
he actually think he's living under? "America" has been dead for quite some
time, but most people are too brain-dead, manipulated or transformed by
greed to see it. Ironically, the individual most responsible, at least
visually, can be seen on a coin that nearly every American carries in pocket
at any given time. Let's all go wave our flags now...


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