For the first time, subscribers around the world can pay to watch North Korean state-run TV.
Called Shiwani TV, the service will livestream Korean Central Television from a pro-North Korean organization based in Poland called Chollima Front for 19 euros (US$21) a month, which includes radio as well.
The programs typically include propaganda about supreme leader Kim Jong Un or other top officials, bad news about other countries – thought to instill fear among North Koreans that the outside world is largely unsafe – and stories confirming the policies that the government wants to push.
For just radio service from the radio stations Korean Central Broadcasting and Voice of Korea, it’s 9 euros ($10) a month. The content will be digitized from their satellite and shortwave broadcasts and streamed online.
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