December 8 (Mon), 2014 0900-1200 UTC
Live broadcast on 15150 kHz, 0900-1000 and on 9930 kHz ,1000-1200 UTC
Do you know about the radio broadcasting to North Korea?
The Government of Japan is to hold a “Symposium on the Radio Broadcasting to North Korea—the human rights issues and abduction issue involving North Korea, and the role of radio broadcasting in resolving these issues.”
Do you know about the radio broadcasting to North Korea?
The Secretariat of the Headquarters for the Abduction Issue of the Japanese government, and some organizations of Japan, the United States and the Republic of Korea (ROK), have been broadcasting radio programs to North Korea. In the programs, those organizations broadcast messages to abductees, news on North Korea, interviews, and songs from Japan and the ROK, on a daily basis.
In the Symposium on the Radio Broadcasting to North Korea, major radio broadcasting organizations will gather and introduce the activities they are carrying out. They will also discuss the role and future of radio broadcasting to North Korea in the process of pursuing the resolution of human rights issues in that country. (This symposium will be aired live to North Korea on 15150 kHz, 0430-0700 UTC.)
The symposium will offer valuable opportunities to gain a better understanding of the radio broadcasting to North Korea, which the general public is unfamiliar with in their everyday lives, and to listen to the opinions of those who have been working on problems of North Korea on the front line. We look forward to your participation.
The information on the symposium is as follows.
Date and Time:
December 13 (Sat.), 2014, 13:30-16:00 JST
Organized by:
Secretariat of the Headquarters for the Abduction Issue, Ministry of Justice
Venue:
Shinjuku Sumitomo Yasuda Life Hall (Nishi-Shinjuku, Tokyo)
Admission fee:
Free of charge
* Application is required(first-come, first-served).
Please send an email stating your name and the names of persons accompanying you (no limit to the number of accompanying persons per applicant) in English to the following email address.
resister.radiosymposium@cas.go.jp
English-Japanese-Korean simultaneous interpretation is offered during the symposium.
Participating radio broadcasting organizations:
- Secretariat of the Headquarters for the Abduction Issue "Wind from Japan" (Japan)
- Investigation Commission on Missing Japanese Probably Related to North-Korea "JSR Shiokaze" (Japan)
- Radio Free Asia (RFA) (U.S.A.)
- Voice of America(VOA) (U.S,A.)
- Free North Korea Radio (ROK)
- North Korea Reform Radio (ROK)
- Open Radio for North Korea (ROK)
- Radio Free Chosun(ROK)
