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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...

Exodus21 Leader Protests for Defectors by Choi Seung Hyeon (vaidale@chosun.com) Protests requesting the release of the some 80 North Korean defectors being held in custody by Chinese authorities are spreading worldwide, and one of the links of the chain of protest is Reverend Shin Dong-chul of peace project Exodus21. Reverend Shin who held a candlelight demonstration in front of the Chinese Consul in Los Angeles on Wednesday with over 150 Americans said that on February 23, protests will be staged in eleven cities around the world including Seoul, Tokyo, Osaka, and Vancouver. "I will spread the protests for the...