Posted 2/5/2012 9:00 am
KCTV live stream down, more on SPTV
The live stream of North Korea's KCTV, reported here last week, is currently down. Seoul-based Unification Broadcasting apparently took it offline after a flood of traffic prompted by a South Korean media report on the service. That report was triggered by the posting here.
The stream has apparently been available for sometime but the address only recently started appearing on some Internet forums and message boards related to international TV. Last week's report on North Korea Tech appears to have brought the service to the attention of the media in Seoul and triggered at least two news reports.
First off the mark was AFP, which interviewed the site's founder. AFP reports Unification Broadcasting is run by Lim Young-Sun, a former North Korean solider that defected to the south 20 years ago. Lim's motivation for the service is to show South Koreans the real face of the North Korean propaganda machine, said AFP.
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