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Invading North KoreaBy Wall Street JournalWall Street Journal | August 22, 2003 Weather permitting, an invasion of North Korea begins today. The objective? Bringing down what Undersecretary of State John Bolton recently called the "hellish nightmare" of Kim Jong Il's regime. No soldiers will be involved in this invasion. The airlift will be provided by 20 large balloons launched from South Korea. The weapons they'll carry are 600 hand-held AM-FM radios. Their target is ordinary North Koreans who have no access to information about what is happening in their own country or the rest of the world. More balloon drops...

The appeasing liberal government of President Roh Mu Hyon in S. Korea boldly interrupted a plan by anti-Communist Human Rights figures today to launch a number of tiny radios into North Korea from the South, in an effort to expose the people under Kim Jong il's murderous and criminal dictatorship, TRUTH from the outside world. Here is a flash report from the front line today in S. Korea (Friday afternoon East Coast Time):"Flash! South Korean Police Battle North Korean Human Rights Activists Trying To Release Balloons, Cite 'Lack of Permit'. Activist Injured in Scuffle in Cholwon(S. Korean) Police on Friday...

U.S. activist plans to send thousands of radios into North Korea to challenge government's information monopoly SEOUL, South Korea, Mar 29, 2003 (AP WorldStream via COMTEX) -- No independent radio or television. No propaganda-free newspapers. No public Internet access. Few North Koreans know what is really happening in their homeland or outside. Their communist government controls the national media and bars citizens from accessing foreign broadcasts. A Korean-American human rights activist hopes to lift the curtain of censorship by sending thousands of tiny, solar-powered radios into North Korea so people can listen to foreign stations. Pastor Douglas Shin plans...