Doesn't this sound a bit familiar?
A whole Nation enslaved in a Mind/Information Control Cult??
"Under threat of severe penalties, the vast majority of North Korea's 22 million people are not allowed any contact with the outside world-- letters, telephone calls, travel, radio or television programs."
"All citizens are required to register their radios with the local police; foreign-made radios are tuned to the state radio frequency, soldered into place and sealed. The police then make unannounced inspections of households with foreign-made radios to verify that they have not been tampered with."
http://www.startribune.com/stories/484/3741018.html
Some see radio as key to freeing North Koreans from information blackout
Published March 9, 2003 RADI09
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA -- As the Pentagon
studies moving tons of military hardware within
striking range of North Korea, some say the
weapon most feared by the Stalinist government
there may be a disposable radio the size of a
cigarette pack.
"Little throwaway radios, you listen, you throw
away -- the smaller the better, the more
disposable, the better," said the Rev. Douglas E.
Shin, a Korean-American human rights activist
who advocates smuggling thousands of tiny
radios capable of receiving foreign broadcasts
into the North.
Radio smuggling is part of a growing public and
private effort to crack an information monopoly
in the North that has helped keep the Kim
family in power for nearly 60 years. So tight is
the information blackout that defectors report
they believed that their country -- one of the
world's poorest -- was wealthier than South
Korea and that the United States donated rice as
a form of tribute to the Communist state.
In January Radio Free Asia and Voice of
America doubled their hours of
Korean-language broadcasting into North Korea.
In February Radio Free Asia joined Voice of
America in broadcasting into North Korea on
medium wave, accessible with cheap AM radios.
But the first challenge, skeptics note, is that few
people in the North have the radios -- or the
courage -- to listen to foreign broadcasts,
something advocates of the radio say they are
determined to change.
Under threat of severe penalties, the vast
majority of North Korea's 22 million people are
not allowed any contact with the outside world
-- letters, telephone calls, travel, radio or
television programs.
All citizens are required to register their radios
with the local police; foreign-made radios are
tuned to the state radio frequency, soldered into
place and sealed. The police then make
unannounced inspections of households with
foreign-made radios to verify that they have not
been tampered with.
"A lot of people in the White House believe the
Iron Curtain came down because U.S.
government radio supplied the information that
created the Velvet Revolution," said an
American diplomat in Seoul, referring to
Czechoslovakia's revolt against Communism.
"But in the case of North Korea, is it the sound
of one hand clapping? Is it getting in there?"
Advocates of smuggling radios into the North,
mostly human rights and Christian church
groups, say their effort is aimed at ensuring that
someone is indeed listening. Even if only a tiny
elite tune in, they say, the effect can be
powerful.
"The populace will suffer a kind of
psychological collapse when they learn what has
been done to them and what the real world is
really like," predicted Radek Sikorski, who grew
up listening to Voice of America and Radio Free
Europe in communist Poland and now works at
the American Enterprise Institute.
"Control of information is absolutely crucial to
the survival of this regime because the system is
based on lies," he said.
In a recent manifesto, Sikorski joined 16
American policy-makers in demanding that the
Bush administration tie talks with North Korea
over its nuclear weapons program to an opening
on human rights, including freer information.
The group called for "significantly expanding
the current, scandalously inadequate
Korean-language Radio Free Asia broadcasts."
Already, in a small office rented on the seventh
floor of a Seoul newspaper building, Radio Free
Asia broadcasters try to bring to North Koreans
four hours of news a day.
The radio also gives practical information for
defectors -- how to contact missionary groups in
northern China, how to dress and behave to
escape arrest and deportation to North Korea.
Copyright 2003 Star Tribune. All rights
reserved.
Information Control Must End
by NewLight2 2 Replies latest jw friends
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DanTheMan
So tight is the information blackout that defectors report they believed that their country -- one of the world's poorest -- was wealthier than South Korea and that the United States donated rice as a form of tribute to the Communist state.
Wow, that is incredible. George Orwell was a prophet indeed.
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NewLight2
This story is from our news.com.au network
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,6098549%255E401,00.html
Bin Laden sons 'shot, captured'
By Anna Cock in New York
March 09, 2003
THE United States has refused to deny reports
that two of Osama bin Laden's sons including
his heir apparent to the al-Qaida terror network
have been captured in a gun battle with US
troops.
Then another News Source reports just the oppisite!
news.telegraph.co.uk
US counter-terrorism officials denied that the sons were captured.
Ummmmmm . . .
Seems like a major case of DIS-information being spread now in the war on Terror!
NewLight2