Broadcasting Update

Freedom House is giving Young Howard’s Open Radio for North Korea $25,000.  But it’s not really the amount of money that’s interesting; it’s how it will be spent:

The money is to support radio programs for families separated by the Korean War. The station said it was the first monetary support from Freedom House for a Korean NGO.

ORNK vowed to boost their programming for separated families. Members of such families can send their stories by phone (0505-470-7470) or e-mail (nkradio@naver.com ), and they will be broadcasted to their families in North Korea. The station opened in December 2005 broadcasts on shortwave on 7390kHz from 11 p.m. to midnight every day. Ten weeks from next Monday will be devoted to programs for separated families.  [Chosun Ilbo]

I suspect this will generate a great deal of curiosity among some North Koreans, and  because I know how smart  Young Howard is, I think he’ll find a way  to  let the family members in the South talk about how their standards of living.