Live in North Korea

Spreading freedom through the airwaves

The US State Department has allocated US$1 million to fund North Korean radio broadcasting businesses led by three organisations for North Korean human rights in South Korea.

The three groups are Open Radio for North Korea, Freedom North Korea Broadcast and another North Korean human rights advocacy group. The third group requested its real name not be released, Radio Netherlands Media Network reports.

The money is separate from funding to increase the airtime for radio broadcasting toward North Korea passed by the US Congress in 2004.

The US government is expected to finance the radio business for fiscal year 2008 after reviewing the previous year’s business outcome.

The three groups funded by the US are set apart from other broadcasting outlets for North Korea, in that they are run by small group of people and seek to differentiate content.

These groups were assigned a radio frequency from a third country as the South Korean government denied them licence to air to North Korea.

Unfortunately, it seems the relic known as Sunshine still applies.