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Mine Would Ask Why He’s the Only Fat Man in the Entire Country: “Open North Korea Broadcasting, a private radio station, says it is giving people a chance to send a message to Kim Jong-il. The Korean-language broadcaster, with offices here but with headquarters in Washington, D.C., said yesterday that starting on New Year’s Day and continuing for a week, it would broadcast free messages from South Koreans to North Koreans in general or to specific people there. Currently the station charges for airing individual commentary: 50,000 won ($49) for the five-minute broadcasts. “As long as the messages are not in violation of South Korean laws, we will air them,” said Ha Tae-gyeong, the secretary-general of the broadcasting operation. The station beams an hour of short-wave transmissions northward for an hour a day beginning at midnight.”