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| S.Korean groups say to air-drop radios into N.Korea |
| 2003-08-11 |
| Human rights activists in South Korea unveiled a campaign on Monday to send radios into North Korea using balloons, in a bid to open up the secretive communist country. They plan to fly more than 20 balloons, each six metres tall and carrying about 30 small radios, into North Korea within the next two weeks from either China or South Korea, organisers told a news conference in Seoul, without elaborating. The North Koreans susequently announced that they would continue their ongoing tests to see if radios were edible. The ’’Give the Ear to a North Korean’’ catchy title huh? campaign was announced amid a flurry of diplomacy as the two Koreas, the United States, China, Japan and Russia prepare to meet in Beijing late this month in an attempt to defuse the North Korean nuclear crisis. North Korea strictly bans its people from listening to or watching outside broadcasts, but several agencies, including Voice of America and South Korea’s KBS -- both government-run broadcasters -- air programmes aimed at North Koreans. |
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| #7 Human rights activists in South Korea unveiled a campaign on Monday to send radios into North Korea using balloons, in a bid to open up the secretive communist country. Uh huh. Airdropping radios will "open up" NK. Sounds like these people were collectively hit with the Stupid Stick. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2003-8-11 10:46:19 PM |
| #6 corn? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-8-11 10:14:16 PM |
| #5 What do they serve with ear, anyway? |
| Posted by: Anono-man 2003-8-11 7:32:27 PM |
| #4 ’’Give the Ear to a North Korean’’ Avoiding the obvious joke ("...because they're tired of eating grass"), they'd have done better using Happy Meals instead of radios. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2003-8-11 7:00:33 PM |
| #3 ’’Give the Ear to a North Korean’’ out and out copy of S.K. Doe's Liberian campaign |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-8-11 4:48:31 PM |
| #2 That's f'ing brilliant--announce it beforehand so the NKors can be the lookout to shoot the balloons down, announce that they're bombs, and issue edicts proclaiming death to anyone who touches the radios without reporting them to the authorities. Why didn't they just do it and crow about it later?! It's not a bad idea, but their schedule is back asswards. |
| Posted by: Dar 2003-8-11 4:14:46 PM |
| #1 Laugh, but I think this group is onto something. Of course the NK will claim the Radios are toxic and cause sterialization. Radios in NK have ONE stations as do the TVs, but there is nothing to listen to or watch. |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge (VRWC CA Chapter) 2003-8-11 4:09:00 PM |