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Welcome to program 405 of Shortwave Radiogram.

I'm Kim Andrew Elliott in Arlington, Virginia USA.

Here is the lineup for today's program, in MFSK modes as noted:

  1:41 MFSK32: Program preview (now)
  2:52 MFSK32: MPs express BBC World Service funding concerns
  6:58 MFSK64: South Korea turns off propaganda loudspeakers
11:37 MFSK64: This week's images
28:40 MFSK32: Closing announcements



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From Advanced Television:

MPs express BBC World Service funding concerns

By Colin Mann
June 6, 2025

The Culture, Media and Sport Committee of the UK House of Commons
has written to the Government to ask for reassurances over the
future funding of the BBC World Service, following reports of
potential cuts planned for the forthcoming Spending Review, which
will set the Government's contribution for the following few
years.

The letter highlights the vital role of the World Service to the
UK's strategic priorities and calls on the Government to rule out
both a 2 per cent cut to funding and any cut to the budget that
will force the BBC to close one or more of its 42 language
services.

The correspondence to the Secretaries of State at CMS, the MoD
and the FCDO, notes the important role of the World Service in
tackling mis and disinformation but warns that without sufficient
resources, its services across the world may have to be reduced.
It currently reaches more than 400 million people each week in
languages from Arabic and Burmese to Ukrainian.

Around one third of the World Service budget comes from the
Government. Despite extra funding of £32.5 million (€38.5m) for
the current financial year being announced in 2024, the World
Service said it would still have to make savings of £6 million.

"At a time when the Government is rightly looking to enhance our
country's security, it's crucial that it does not overlook the
role played by the BBC World Service," declared Dame Caroline
Dinenage MP, Chair of the CMS Committee. "Through its foreign
language services, it is on the frontline of the global fight
against mis and disinformation, but unless it is properly funded,
we risk handing the microphone away and giving free reign to
media backed by hostile states to become the dominant voice
around the world. Ministers have told us that the World Service
bolsters UK security. Cutting its funding now would undoubtably
make us all less safe."

The Committee held two evidence sessions late in 2024 as part of
work with two other committees on the funding of the BBC World
Service, and followed up with a letter urging the Government to
ensure sufficient resources so that it is less reliant on the
licence fee and short-term funding cycles.

The BBC responded to the letter in February 2025 and the
Government in March. The BBC also wrote to the Committee
following an evidence session with the Director General and Chair
in March, which included further content on the World Service.

https://www.advanced-television.com/2025/06/06/mps-express-bbc-world-service-funding-concerns/
 

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From BBC News:


South Korea turns off propaganda loudspeakers to North

Joel Guinto
June 11, 2025

South Korea's military says it has suspended its loudspeaker
propaganda broadcasts across the border to North Korea, as part
of a bid to "restore trust" between both countries.

The move comes a week after the country elected its new president
Lee Jae-myung, who had campaigned on improving inter-Korean ties.

Pyongyang considers the loudspeaker propaganda broadcasts an act
of war and has threatened to blow them up in the past.

They were paused for six years but resumed in June last year in
response to Pyongyang's campaign of sending rubbish-filled
balloons across the border to the South.

In recent years, the broadcasts have included news from both
Koreas and abroad as well as information on democracy and life in
the South.

Ties between North and South Korea had deteriorated under
previous president Yoon Suk Yeol, who was more hawkish towards
Pyongyang.

Yoon was impeached and removed from his post for briefly placing
South Korea under martial law in December, citing supposed
threats from anti-state forces and North Korea sympathisers.

His successor, Lee, had campaigned on a series of pledges,
including one to restart dialogue with Pyongyang and to reduce
tensions between both countries.

The move aims to "restore trust in inter-Korean relations and
achieve peace on the Korean Peninsula", the military said in a
statement.

But organisations advocating to improve the human rights of North
Koreans have criticised the suspension.

"The loudspeakers were a vital bridge to the North Korean people,
a reminder that they are not forgotten. By turning them off,
we've only strengthened Kim Jong Un's efforts to keep his people
isolated," said Hana Song, the executive director of the Database
Center for North Korean Human Rights, based in Seoul.

"The fact that one of the new government's first actions is to
turn off the loudspeakers is a troubling sign," she added. "It
suggests we're returning to the days of appeasing the North
Korean regime."

But residents living along the border have welcomed the move.
They have for months complained that their lives have been
blighted by the noise of the loudspeakers coming from both the
South and North, sometimes in the middle of the night.

One border region, Ganghwa county, said in a statement: "We hope
this decision will lead to an end to North Korea's noise-based
psychological warfare, allowing our residents to return to their
normal daily lives."

According to a report by South Korea's Yonhap news agency, the
military's decision also took into account the fact that the
North has no longer been sending rubbish-filled balloons across
the border.

However, by suspending instead of terminating the broadcasts, the
military is signalling that the speakers could be fired up again
if needed, adds Yonhap.

Seoul claims the broadcasts can be heard as much as 10km (6.2
miles) across the border in the day and up to 24km (15 miles) at
night.

The suspension comes almost exactly a year after they were first
resumed in June 2024 - when both countries had engaged in various
retaliatory campaigns involving rubbish and propaganda balloons.

Reuniting with the South had always been a key, if increasingly
unrealistic, part of the North's ideology since the inception of
the state - until Kim abandoned the idea earlier last year.

Both countries are technically still at war since the Korean War
ended in 1953 without a peace treaty.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g65nrek75o
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A tram climbs the Calçada do Combro in Lisbon, June 10.
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One of the year's first blooms at the Rose Garden of the Yakima
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"A Cardinal Ponders." South Llano River State Park, Texas.
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