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<\/a>Its been a few months since I have personally received them \u2013 but I also haven\u2019t been specifically tuning in for them lately so maybe I have simply missed noticing a timing change.<\/p>\n“If you want to find the North Korean numbers, they are read out in a block between songs within the regular programing of the Pyongyang Pangsong radio station. The choice of music immediately before the number block seems to indicate which recipient agent the transmission is directed to. For Agent 27 \u201cWe Will Go Together with a Song Of Joy\u201d is played, whereas Agent 21\u2019s song is \u201cSpring of my Hometown.\u201d<\/p>\n
“The announcements typically take between 5 to 10 minutes to read dependent on the number of digits passed. The transmission schedule is variable; in early 2017 the broadcast alternated with a cycle of one week on Thursday night at 12:45AM Pyongyang Time (1615 UTC) and the following week on Saturday night at 11:45PM Pyongyang Time (1515 UTC).<\/p>\n
“Pyongyang Pangsong can be heard on these shortwave band frequencies (it is also on MF & FM on the Korean peninsular):<\/p>\n
3250 kHz Pyongyang 100KW Transmitter
\n3320 kHz, Pyongyang 50KW Transmitter
\n6400 kHa Kanggye 50KW Transmitter”<\/p>\n
If you’re interested in learning about what life is like “Behind the Curtain<\/a>“, Mark has compiled a detailed multimedia publication based upon his actual observations inside North Korea.\u00a0 It is available at no cost via iTunes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My Aussie mate, Mark Fahey, has spent a number of years studying the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.\u00a0 He passes on the following information about North Korean “spy numbers” stations: “The Pyongyang numbers (designated V15) have either become less regular or changed their schedule since March. Its been a few months since I have personally … Continue reading “Tracking North Korean Numbers”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5,4,2],"tags":[44,43,46,45],"class_list":["post-392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-politics","category-radio","category-travel","tag-dprk","tag-north-korea","tag-shortwave","tag-spy-numbers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.k2ie.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.k2ie.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.k2ie.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.k2ie.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.k2ie.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.k2ie.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":402,"href":"https:\/\/www.k2ie.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions\/402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.k2ie.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.k2ie.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.k2ie.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}