U.S. plans to sneak tiny radios into N Korea for its info-starved citizens

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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.

For the next four years, Washington will spend up to $2 million annually 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 American 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 tiny radios will air "rotten imperialist reactionary culture" to undermine the country.
http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/10167096.htm

[leesa]

1. Isuppose they'll get to listen to Rush 24/7. How stupid!

[benito]

2. programming to die for!

[Xenus Sister]

3. Damn, why don't they do that for Americans?!

Americans are more "info-starved" than anyone.

[struggle4progress]

10. Smuggle Tiny Radios into the White House!

* might learn that Aznar wasn't top man in Spain anymore.

[BJ]

4. They plan on having human "mules" like drug smugglers?

Will these tiny radios be so small the "mule" can swallow one encased in a condom and shit it up later?

Jesus, I'm telling you, these guys aren't playing with a full deck!

[SoCalDem]

5. Gee.. tell the whole world.. Do these people think that N Korea

is as inept with translators as WE are??:eyes:

I bet Rush & Sean & Bill O will sound funny in Korean:)

[jdj]

7. oops...guess it's not a secret anymore.

[Tab]

6. "rotten imperialist reactionary culture"

You know, he may be right.

[teryang]

8. American breach of the "Agreed Framework" of 1994

...did quite a bit to undermine the country. I don't think Americans can smuggle much of anything into a totalitarian state.

[Tab]

9. Whaddaya mean, Rush Limbaugh?

I'm sure it's going to be broadcasting NPR

[bluestatewannabe]

11. I bet they have more equal health care than we do.

They don't have Haliburton, what is so bad about that?