WORLDWIDE DX CLUB Weekly Top News

eing jammed by Pyongyang, Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe said
Tuesday.
The Investigation Commission on Missing Japanese Probably Related to North
Korea began the broadcasts, called Shiokaze, in October in the hope that
any missing Japanese in North Korea would hear the messages.
"The jamming txion is coming from North Korea and appears to have started
from May 5 at the latest," Abe said. "It's regrettable if North Korea is
jamming the broadcasts because the commission is trying to send messages
to as many missing Japanese as possible."
Shiokaze airs messages from families of missing Japanese from 4 a.m. to
4:30 a.m. and 11 p.m. to midnight every day. Messages criticizing the
North Korean regime, including those by former North Korean agent An Myong
Jin, also have been transmitted since April.
According to the commission, the jamming started late Friday and continued
until Tuesday. North Korea also jams broadcasts from South Korea in a
similar manner.
(The Yomiuri Shimbun, May 11 via Zacharias Liangas-GRC, wwdxc BC-DX)
Pyongyang jams SW broadcasts on abductions.
North Korea has been jamming the SW radio broadcasts of a group searching
for missing Japanese thought to have been abducted by the communist
country, the top govt spokesman said Tuesday.
"An unknown txion emitted from within North Korea has been confirmed and
is believed to have been jamming the SW radio broadcasts" since Friday,
Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe said, describing the interference as
"deplorable."
The group, known as the Investigative Commission on Missing Japanese
Probably Related to North Korea, broadcasts the program "Shiokaze" twice a
day on SW radio through a British company. It can be heard in North Korea,
as well as in areas near the North Korean border in China and in the
northern part of South Korea.
The program, which began Oct. 30, according to the group's Web site, is
aimed at rescuing missing Japanese by broadcasting information about them
as well as messages from families and relatives in Japan.
North Korea admitted in 2002 that its agents abducted or lured 13 Japanese
nationals in the late 1970s and early 1980s, reportedly to use their
identities and to have them teach the Japanese lang and culture to spies.
The govt has officially recognized 16 Japanese, including the 13, as
having been abducted by North Korea. The group believes as many as 100 to
200 were taken by the North.