The ghostly radio station that no one claims to run
“MDZhB” has been broadcasting since 1982. No one knows why.
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“MDZhB” has been broadcasting since 1982. No one knows why.
North Korea stopped operating a radio station used to send coded messages to its agents in South Korea, the Yonhap news agency said on Saturday, the latest sign the isolated country is shaking up the way it handles relations with Seoul. North Korea has been stepping up pressure on Seoul in recent weeks, declaring it the "principal enemy", saying the North will never reunite with the South and vowing to enhance its ability to deliver a nuclear strike on the U.S. and America's allies in the Pacific. Radio Pyongyang, known as a numbers station, in the past broadcast mysterious co...
North Korea has ceased operations of Radio Pyongyang, also known as Voice of Korea, which has previously broadcast coded number messages to agents in South Korea.
North Korea appears to have ceased operations of a radio station suspected of sending coded messages to its spies in the South.
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