RSF Gives Large Grant to Defector Radio Stations

After years on shoestring budgets, broadcasting services by an for North Koreans have won a large new source of funding:

An international organization of journalists will provide financial help to three anti-Pyongyang radio stations in South Korea, the Voice of America (VOA) reported Saturday.

According to the VOA, Paris-based Reporters sans Frontiers (RSF) will provide US$380,000 to the three radio stations — Open Radio for North Korea, Free North Korea Radio and Radio Free Chosun — which produce and transmit shortwave programs from the South into North Korea.

Pyongyang has in the past asked South Korea to suspend the stations, calling them an obstacle to unification. [Yonhap]

Is it just my perception, or has RSF been more worthy of its name in recent years? As for the grantees, Open Radio has come into its own as good source of information not just for North Koreans, but from them.