North Korea launches radio program targeted at South
North Korea launched a new radio broadcast targeted at South Korea on Saturday morning. The two-hour long “Echo of Unification” broadcast is expected to be broadcast three times a day…
Articles by Martyn Williams
Satellite images show changes at Sohae-ri rocket launch facility
Both of the major private satellite imagery providers, GeoEye and DigitalGlobe, have captured images of the North Korean satellite launch facility in the last month and both images show changes…
Retweeting DPRK lands activist with suspended sentance
Park Jung-geun, a Seoul-based photographer and free-speech activist, has received a 10-month suspended prison sentence for retweeting North Korean tweets. The case, one of several that has drawn international attention to South…
Report: DPRK jams South Korean satellite comms
North Korea earlier this year jammed military communications running through a South Korea satellite, according to a report in the Joong Ang Ilbo. The newspaper, which quoted an anonymous South…
North Koreans to soon loose access to South Korean TV
South Korea’s impending closure of analog television broadcasts will cut off one of the few uncensored sources of information available to North Korean citizens. South Korea, like many countries, is…
Diving into AirKoryo’s new website
It’s been a couple of weeks since Air Koryo’s new web site make headlines. Much has been written about the site, but not much of substance. A lot of the…
Voice of Korea winter 2012/13 schedule
Many international radio stations, including the Voice of Korea, just made their semi-annual schedule change to accomodate seasonal broadcasting conditions. The radio station broadcasts two programs a day, each around…
Japanese flat-screen TVs on evening news
North Korea’s main evening news bulletin reported on Saturday evening about big-screen Japanese televisions. The report was contained as one of the brief foreign news items sometimes included at the…
Visiting Tokyo’s Korean Book Center
There aren’t many places in the world outside of North Korea that you can just walk in and peruse DPRK propaganda, but Tokyo’s Korea Book Center is one place that…
