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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, 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.

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DNyuz broke the news in on Sunday, September 14, 2025.
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