Korean Central Broadcasting

This is the sound of North Korea as the state wants you to hear it. Korean Central Broadcasting is the official mouthpiece of the Workers' Party, broadcasting from Pyongyang since 1945. The output is relentlessly political: hours of news praising the Kim dynasty, denouncing the US and South Korea, and mobilizing the population. Expect dramatic voice announcing achievements in construction or military parades. Music appears too, revolutionary hymns and folk songs, never Western. The presenters speak with an intensity that brooks no dissent. It's not background listening. This is propaganda in i…