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N. Korea: Watching S. Korean TV in Pyongyang? (jamming breaks down)
Chosun Ilbo ^
| 12/30/09
Posted on 12/30/2009 6:11:37 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
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Watching S. Korean TV in Pyongyang?
Yonhap News
2009.12.30 17:04
”FNK Radio "S. Korean TV Seen All over N. Korea Last Week"
Could N. Koreans watch S. Korean TV?
The answer is, "Not always but possible."
Quoting a source inside N. Korea, Free North Korea Radio, operated by N. Korean defectors, reported on Dec. 30, "All over N. Korea including Pyongyang, people watched mysterious TV broadcast titled 'FM-TV' between 4pm and 6pm throughout the last week, and it was in regular broadcast format. It included the program 'Strange Three Brothers.' It was bizarre."
'Strange Three Brothers' is believed to the reference to 'Suspicious Three Brothers,' a weekend drama currently aired by KBS (S. Korean TV.)
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According to experts, both North and South Korea send 'propaganda program' into the other side and jam the frequency of the broadcast from the other side, but due to power shortage, N. Korea's 'defense' breaks down from time to time, allowing S. Korean broadcast to be watched in some areas of N. Korea.
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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fmtv; jamming; nkorea; tv
It is not clear if they sends this broadcast on the same frequency NK state TV is using or on a different frequency. N. Korean TV is fixed for watching state TV only, but N. Koreans these days routinely tamper with their TV and make it receive signals other than state TV.
To: TigerLikesRooster; AmericanInTokyo; Steel Wolf; nuconvert; MizSterious; nw_arizona_granny; ...
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posted on
12/30/2009 6:12:21 AM PST
by
TigerLikesRooster
(LUV DIC -- L,U,V-shaped recession, Depression, Inflation, Collapse)
To: TigerLikesRooster
They were probably looking to watch that new soap opera “The Kim Il Jung and the Restless”.
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posted on
12/30/2009 6:19:41 AM PST
by
Mr. Jazzy
("I AM JIM THOMPSON and moderates make me PUKE!!!")
To: TigerLikesRooster
N. Koreans these days routinely tamper with their TV and make it receive signals other than state TV. What is the distribution of TV receivers in North Korea? One per family, one per town, or what have you?
In a repressive police state like North Korea I am surprised that someone would take a chance on tampering with a TV receiver since it could so easily be detected.
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Yes, it used to be that way. Now their securities are busy with chasing down cellphone signals, so TV problem has become a lower priority, I think.
As for how many TV sets are out there in N. Korea, I heard that great majority of households or work units have them. It is an important indoctrination and propaganda tool.
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posted on
12/30/2009 6:48:05 AM PST
by
TigerLikesRooster
(LUV DIC -- L,U,V-shaped recession, Depression, Inflation, Collapse)
To: TigerLikesRooster
As for how many TV sets are out there in N. Korea, I heard that great majority of households or work units have them. It is an important indoctrination and propaganda tool. It worked here.
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posted on
12/30/2009 7:07:48 AM PST
by
Carry_Okie
(The environment is too complex and too important to manage by central planning.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Probably also, in addition to North Korean TVs set to pre-established frequencies, (so they essentially have an "on", "Channel 1", "Channel 2", "Channel 3", and "FM" and "off" switch only), their TV broadcast system in the DPRK is also apparantly PAL, whereas the South is in NTSC. As a result, even without jammers
Which leads me to believe that somehow these are black ops, clandestine broadcast of some nature. From where, I am not sure. But VERY provocative story.
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posted on
12/30/2009 7:26:54 AM PST
by
AmericanInTokyo
(Just TWO MORE DAYS until ***ELECTION YEAR****)
To: AmericanInTokyo
...as a result, even without jammers, one would not necessarily be able to pick up an NTSC broadcast on a PAL system TV....
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posted on
12/30/2009 7:28:49 AM PST
by
AmericanInTokyo
(Just TWO MORE DAYS until ***ELECTION YEAR****)
To: AmericanInTokyo
If that's the case, it is possible that there is a ship or two in East Sea(aka Sea of Japan) beaming TV signals into N. Korea. Guess spooks are busy.
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posted on
12/30/2009 7:33:39 AM PST
by
TigerLikesRooster
(LUV DIC -- L,U,V-shaped recession, Depression, Inflation, Collapse)
To: TigerLikesRooster
They probably watching Latest Soap opera
All Chia Pet children LOL!
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posted on
12/30/2009 11:53:38 AM PST
by
SevenofNine
("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
To: TigerLikesRooster
N. Koreans these days routinely tamper with their TV and make it receive signals other than state TV.Good news. If true it signals the beginning of the end for the Il regime.
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