The THAAD deployment is meant to counter North Korea's nuclear missile program, something Kim Jong Un has spent a lot of time on.įinally, whom is the message meant for? North Korea is thought to have sleeper agents stationed in the South and possibly as far away as Japan, all awaiting activation for any number of tasks, from espionage to sabotage. It is also very unhappy with the announcement to place American THAAD ballistic missile interceptors in South Korea. The message obviously means something, but what? Pyongyang recently called for terrorist-style attacks against South Korean targets, including subways, shopping malls, and power plants. "Number stations" are also less than ideal because the mere act of transmitting tells the entire world that you're up to something. There are literally a billion places to hide a secret message in plain sight on the internet-everywhere from want ads on Craigslist to messages in ancient forums. That's why the reactivation of North Korea's system is so puzzling.
North Korea ceased transmitting the messages in 2000. Spy agencies around the world have used numbers stations for decades, but the advent of the internet has generally made the system obsolete. The messages typically consist of a string of numbers or phrases, nonsensical to anyone but the intended recipient. North Korea has long used so-called numbers stations-shortwave radio stations that broadcast coded messages to communicate with agents abroad. There were more problems when we were building the stage set for the show, primarily because of a lack of equipment and cables, but everything was fine in the end.The string of phrases and numbers continued for another twelve minutes. Generally very easy, smooth and kind, even with the people who did not speak any foreign language. What were your interactions with them like? They were all very helpful and not at all a nuisance. Our group of 30 people was taken care by five Korean “helpers, guides and translators,” who also made sure that we did not act “too freely” and vanish in the night. No, there were several party officials and foreign ambassadors at the show, but we were not in touch with them.ĭid the government provide handlers or minders to watch over you? Of the higher-ranking state officials, we only had a direct contact with the Korean vice minister of culture - also a music composer himself - who couldn’t speak English much, so our communication was very formal and polite.ĭid you meet with any heads of state or get any communication from Kim Jong-un? How did the country’s government receive you? (North Korean) numbers broadcasts have been on hold for quite some time but have recently resumed, something we think is very regrettable, Jeong Joon-hee, a spokesman for South Korea’s.
Our first impression of the country was, “This is just like we expected… but it is somehow completely different.” A few days later, we were thinking about an option to be able to “live and stay there to reach the higher wisdom in ourselves.” The country may be poor and isolated, with a heavily oppressive political system, but the people are fantastic and they seem to possess the precious wisdom that we don’t. What were your first impressions of North Korea when you arrived? He swam 6km from North to South Korea and started. In 1993 Korea, the only country where the Cold War. The group’s latest video for a song off Spectre, “We Are Millions and Millions Are One,” is streaming at the bottom of this article. Chul-eun Lee is a former high-ranking North Korean government official who defected to South Korea in 2016. The Spy Gone North is a critically-acclaimed, edge of your seat spy thriller from director Yoon Jong-Bin. Laibach asked him to direct a video for their song “The Whistleblowers,” which appeared on their 2014 album Spectre, and when it was completed, he showed it to North Korean authorities who eventually sent the band a formal invitation to perform in the country. Unaware that this single act will brand him a spy. The original idea for the concerts came from a Norwegian artist and activist named Morten Traavik who had previously organized cultural exchanges with North Korea. He finds it on a tourist trip to North Korea when he stumbles upon a young street kid foraging for roots. The shows, dubbed the Liberation Day Tour, marked the 70th anniversary of Korea’s independence from Japan after World War II. The band, which formed in 1980 in what was then the communist country Yugoslavia and is now Slovenia, performed a short set last Wednesday that was mostly composed of tunes from The Sound of Music and other covers, as well as some Laibach originals at the city’s Ponghwa Theatre and an acoustic set at the Kum Song music school. Last week, the avant-garde industrial group Laibach became the first-ever Western rock group to perform in North Korea’s capital, Pyongyang.
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