Voice of Korea
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| Type | Radio network |
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| Country | North Korea |
| Availability | International |
| Owner | Korean Central Broadcasting Committee |
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Launch date
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October 14, 1945 |
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Former names
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Radio Pyongyang |
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Official website
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www.vok.rep.kp |
| Voice of Korea | |
| Chosŏn'gŭl | 조선의 소리 |
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| Hancha | 朝鮮의 소리 |
| Revised Romanization | Joseon-ui Sori |
| McCune–Reischauer | Chosŏn-ŭi Sori |
Voice of Korea (Korean: 조선 ) is the international broadcasting service of North Korea. It broadcasts primarily information in Chinese, Spanish, German, English, French, Russian, Japanese, and Arabic. Until 2002 it was known as Radio Pyongyang. The interval signal is identical to that of Korean Central Television.
Its origins can be traced to 1936 and radio station JBBK. Operated by the occupying Japanese forces, JBBK broadcast a first and second program as part of Japan's radio network that covered the Korean peninsula from Seoul.
The station officially inaugurated programming on October 14, 1945, with a live broadcast of the victory speech of Kim Il Sung when he returned to Pyongyang at the end of World War II.
Voice of Korea broadcasts on HF or shortwave radio frequencies, as well as on medium wave for broadcasts aimed at neighboring countries. Some frequencies are well out of the ITU-allocated shortwave broadcast bands, making them less susceptible to interference and less likely to be listenable on older receivers.
Most of the broadcasts are transmitted from the Kujang shortwave transmitter site, approximately 25 km from the city of Kujang.
In 2006 VOK started broadcasting on the same frequency as the Lincolnshire Poacher numbers station It is unknown whether this was an intentional effort to frustrate the Poacher's operators or an accident, as it is not unknown for Voice of Korea to unintentionally jam its own signal by transmitting programmes in different languages simultaneously on the same frequency.
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