North Korea's state radio station on Sunday resumed the broadcast of mysterious numbers after a two-week hiatus, with the content of the transmission different from what was sent in the past.
North Korean watchers in Seoul have speculated that the broadcasts could be some kind of coded message to its agents, although it could just be a kind of deceptive strategy aimed at sparking confusion within South Korea.
顶: 9298踩: 47914
An announcer at Radio Pyongyang started reading a series of messages shortly after midnight, calling out both pages and numbers.
The announcer said she is "giving review work in metal engineering to No. 21 expedition agents."
Since June 24, North Korea sent out a total of eight encrypted numbers broadcasts, with the last one broadcast on Sept. 25.
Broadcasts of mysterious numbers are a kind of book cipher that was often used by North Korea to give missions to spies operating in South Korea during the Cold War era. Spies could decode numbers to get orders by using a reference book, although many intelligence agents believe this form of sending orders to be outdated.
Pyongyang had initially suspended such broadcasts in 2000 when the two Koreas held their first historic summit.
Tensions are already running high on the divided peninsula after North Korea carried out its fifth nuclear test on Sept. 9 and warned it could launch preemptive strikes against Seoul and Washington. Seoul is on high alert for additional provocations by the North as the country gets ready to celebrate the anniversary of the founding of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea on Monday. (Yonhap)
NK resumes encrypted numbers broadcast after 2
人参与 | 时间:2024-09-22 08:32:16
相关文章
- 23 Peculiar Places of 2023
- N. Korea's criticism of Yoon reflects sense of isolation, crisis: unification ministry
- Daniel Kaluuya's Oscars speech thanked his parents for having sex
- Jared Kushner's awkward 'Time' cover inspires plenty of robot and marionette jokes
- 21 Lost and Lonely Cemeteries
- Lewandowski, Ibrahimovic seek World Cup place
- 北纬三十度公园路灯破损 市民呼吁及时更换
- 市生态环境局检查荥经油气回收装置运行情况
- Tesla considers adding a new ‘stuck detection' feature to Cybertruck. Here’s why.
- S. Korea starts construction of 2nd 3,600
评论专区