Wouldn’t that increase the happiness of North Korean citizens? It’s a worker’s paradise, so I’m told! Best Korea must just be protecting its people from foreign propaganda. /s
I mean, if that’s North Korea’s concern here, they should ban receivers that can pick up outside stations and switch domestic use over to some kind of proprietary system. Trying to create a buffer zone around the state just seems unrealistic.
kagis
It sounds like they more-or-less do do that for television, just not radio:
Television sets sold in North Korea are able to operate only on the PAL and DVB-T2 systems, to prevent them from being able to pick up broadcasts from South Korea (which use NTSC System M analogue and ATSC digital) or China (which uses DTMB digital). However, broadcasts from Russia can be picked up, as they are also DVB-T2. Imported TV sets that are able to operate on both PAL and NTSC, such as those from Japan, have their NTSC abilities disabled by the government on import.[9]
Apparently they do run “jamming” stations to try to block reception of some radio stations from the outside world, though.
Not surprising. North Korea doesn’t want foreign media showing their people the outside world, because they’ll compare it to their own lives.
Wouldn’t that increase the happiness of North Korean citizens? It’s a worker’s paradise, so I’m told! Best Korea must just be protecting its people from foreign propaganda. /s
I mean, if that’s North Korea’s concern here, they should ban receivers that can pick up outside stations and switch domestic use over to some kind of proprietary system. Trying to create a buffer zone around the state just seems unrealistic.
kagis
It sounds like they more-or-less do do that for television, just not radio:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_in_North_Korea
Apparently they do run “jamming” stations to try to block reception of some radio stations from the outside world, though.