Monday, March 03, 2003
21ST CENTURY WARFARE: Overwhelm North Korea with tiny radios.
The radio smuggling is part of a growing public and private effort, including foreign radio broadcasts, to crack an information monopoly in the North that has helped keep the Kim family in power for nearly 60 years. So tight is the information blackout that defectors report that they believed that their country — one of the world's poorest — was wealthier than South Korea and that the United States donated rice as a form of tribute to the powerful Communist state.
I, for one, would certainly prefer raining radios rather than smart missiles.
