North Korea to be invaded by balloons
Cathy Hong reports on why radios could soon be falling out of the sky, bringing voices from abroad .
...will unleash hundreds of balloons bearing battery-powered radios, which will drift northward across the demilitarised zone and land in the open countryside...
...hope North Koreans will find the radios and tune in to
independent news stations...
..will play Radio Free Asia, Voice of America, a South Korean Christian station, and a secular South Korean government station...
"It's an excellent way to evangelise a nation," says Gary Lane, director of news services for the Voice of the Martyrs...
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and Washington insiders speculate that the CIA may now be involved with trafficking radios into the country in an effort to add international pressure to the regime...
On the record, US government sources deny any involvement
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