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They will be aired every night in Japanese and Korean for 30 minutes in
each language.
The broadcasts will include encouraging words from relatives of abductees,
and government information on developments in the abduction issue and the
international situation surrounding North Korea. The content of the
broadcasts will change each week.
The private broadcaster will send out signals via transmission stations
overseas.The government has declined to comment on the time and frequency
of the broadcasts, citing potential jamming by North Korea.
The Japanese government officially recognizes 17 people as having been
abducted by North Korea in the 1970s and 1980s. Five of them returned to
Japan in 2002.
(Paul Gager-AUT, A-DX via Harald Kuhl-D, DXplorer July 9)
Via Herald-Sun website. No idea of frequencies.
From correspondents in Tokyo July 09, 2007
JAPAN was set to begin a daily radio program late today targeting
kidnapped Japanese who are possibly still alive in North Korea by
broadcasting their families voices into the communist state.
The 30-minute shortwave program, to be aired both in Japanese and Korean,
will also provide information on events surrounding Japan and North Korea
for ordinary North Koreans, the Japanese Government said in a statement.
"The Government will send messages from their families and (information
on) its efforts to repatriate the abductees," the statement said.
The broadcast will also explain Japan's position on the kidnapping issue
while calling on ordinary North Koreans to provide information on the
alleged abductees and to help to ensure their safety, it added.
The radio program, to be updated every week, will also air songs that were
popular in the 1970s and would probably be familiar to any surviving
kidnap victims.
The Government did not reveal any further details, including the time and
frequency, for fear that North Korea may try to interfere in the
broadcast, which will be made from an undisclosed location outside of
Japan.
North Korean defectors as well as a non-governmental organisation helping
families of alleged abductees also have radio broadcasts to the communist
state, but this is the first service directly involving Japan's
Government.
North Korea admitted in 2002 it kidnapped Japanese civilians in the 1970s
and 1980s to train the regime's spies. It returned five abductees and
their families and says the issue is resolved, but Japan says more victims
are alive.
(via David Onley-HOL, DXplorer July 9)
The Japanese Government does not announce a schedule to avoid Jamming from
North Korea. Headquarters for the Abduction Issue, Government of Japan:
(Sei-ichi Hasegawa-JPN, direct and dxld July 9)
There was a big controversy in Japan over whether KDDI facilities at
Yamata should be made available for this instead of just NHK (and its