Kim Seong-Min, Defector Whose Radio Broadcasts Relayed Foreign News to North Korea, Dies at 63
Kim Seong-Min founded the first South Korean civilian radio station broadcasting into North Korea in 2005, aiming to counter regime propaganda and inform 26 million citizens.
- Kim Seong-Min, a prominent North Korean defector, used radio broadcasts to inform North Koreans about their authoritarian government and the outside world.
- Kim founded the Seoul-based Free North Korea Radio and smuggled in news and media via USB drives and sources inside North Korea.
- The 63-year-old Kim, a former North Korean army captain who defected in 1999, died on Friday after battling lung cancer that spread to his liver.
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Kim Seong-Min, a prominent North Korean defector who used radio broadcasts, USB sticks, and a network of sources in the secretive country to inform the North Korean public about the truth of their authoritarian government, has died. He was 63, reports the AP . The founder of the Seoul-based Free North...
Kim Seong-Min, Whose Broadcasts Relayed Foreign News To North Korea, Dies
Kim Seong-Min, a prominent North Korean defector who used radio broadcasts, USB sticks and a network of sources in the secretive country to inform the North Korean public about the truth of their authoritarian government, has died.
Kim Seong-Min, defector whose radio broadcasts relayed foreign news to N. Korea, dies
Kim Seong-Min, a prominent North Korean defector who used radio broadcasts, USB sticks and a network of sources in the secretive country to inform the North Korean public about the truth of their authoritarian government, has died

Kim Seong-Min, defector whose radio broadcasts relayed foreign news to North Korea, dies at 63
Kim Seong-Min, a prominent North Korean defector who used radio broadcasts, USB sticks and a network of sources in the secretive country to inform the North Korean public about the truth of their authoritarian government, has died.


Kim Seongmin, Defector Who Pierced North Korea by Radio, Dies at 63
Kim Seongmin, a former military propagandist who fled North Korea by jumping off a train, defected to the South and from there, as a human rights campaigner, broadcast news to...
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