[via Incestuous Amplification] This entry is a followup to my previous post on using balloons to send radios to North Korea. Thanks to ParaPundit for this additional information.
An organization called Free North Korea is intending to smuggle radios into North Korea by several methods in addition to ballooning. According to human rights activist Rev. Douglas Shin, the radios will be smuggled:
Over the land (i.e. hand-carried), by sea (eg. in a bottle or by unmanned boat), and by air (eg. by balloon or by UAV--unmanned aerial vehicle or 'drone'). [and]
Each package will include one solar-powered radio, one sheet of waterproof paper containing whatever printed message the donor wants to send (eg. Christian tract, freedom notice, introduction to the donor), and a 500-won North Korean note to buy a few kilos of rice with. The radios cost about $20 right now and the price is going down.
The act of sending the radios is noble, but not without inherent danger as attested to by Hwang Ki-Suk, a North Korean defector, who stated:
"My brother and his family were sent to prison for listening to South Korean broadcasts."
It's recognized by some that possession of and listening to these radios is dangerous, but the consensus is that the benefit to be derived by the North Korean population in hearing the truth far outweighs the negatives.
Let us pray that it does.
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