Infiltrators of North Korea: Tiny Radios

During the Kim family’s 60-year rule over North Korea, the rest of the world has witnessed a communications boom: especially in recent years the Internet, cell phones, and the rest of the “information revolution” have made it easy to communicate from thousands of miles away. But Pyongyang's communist regime has made it all but impossible for North Koreans to take part in that revolution. Isolated within their country’s borders, North Koreans must listen to state-sponsored radio and have no access to other sources of information. Now, in the context of the recent nuclear crisis in North Korea, the United States is stepping up efforts to broadcast American news to the country in hopes that North Koreans will turn against their leader. –YaleGlobal