Journalists to provide financial help to anti-Pyongyang radio stations

SEOUL, Nov. 14 (Yonhap) -- 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.
Radios are reportedly one of the main tools used by North Koreans to receive
information from the outside world. Outside information in North Korea is
strictly controlled by the government.
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