High-quality audio streams from the Voice of Korea, North Korea’s international broadcaster, will soon be gone from the web. The recordings, which are available in five languages, have been offered by London-based World…
MND Radio, a shortwave radio station run by South Korea’s Ministry of National Defense, appears to have left the air. The station was last heard broadcasting on October 31st. Since…
Driving up South Korea’s “freedom highway” north of Seoul, just after the turn off for the National Defense University, observant travelers will notice a collection of transmitter masts off to the…
Regular visitors to the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) might have noticed something different about the site in the last few days. The North Korean state-run news agency has begun…
Voice of Korea will switch to its winter 2013/2014 shortwave broadcasting schedule from October 27, 2013. The broadcasts follow the same basic line-up each day. :00 Opening signal, station identification:…
As part of a season of programs and reports on North Korea, the U.K.’s Channel 4 is showing the main evening news from Korea Central Television with English translation. The…
The Associated Press has named Eric Talmadge as the new chief of its Pyongyang bureau. Talmadge was previously a news editor for the AP in Tokyo and also wrote on…
The president and CEO of the Associated Press, Gary Pruitt, just concluded a four-day visit to Pyongyang during which he toured the city and sat down for an interview with…
Could North Korea be on the cusp of a 3D movie boom? A movie theater capable of showing 3D motion pictures has been built at Pyongyang’s Rungna People’s Pleasure Park,…
