Cold War-style coded transmissions resume, after decades of silence.
Deep-cover agents, being re-activated?
Perhaps, or perhaps, in that honored North Korean tradition, they’re just fucking with everybody.
Are they in Korean, English, or Spanish? 'Cuz I loves me my numbers stations, and if my daughter gives back my SW maybe I can learn some Korean.
Or perhaps Strexcorp Synernists Inc. moved local Numbers Station WZZZ to North Korea from its original location in Night Vale
…wonder what Fay has to say about it?
The article beat me to it… I’m surprised that anyone would still be using a numbers station. We live in an age with things like file torrents, steganography, PGP key and TOR. A numbers station is basically the least efficient and least flexible way to communicate.
They might be just jerking us around, trying to spread fear and get SK to misdirect security resources. The alternative is that they have agents in place so long that they never got trained on modern web tools, and yet they still expect them to be paying attention to radio broadcasts after decades of living in the South. I know there are examples of defectors who genuinely want to go home, but I find it hard to believe a spy or provocateur would still give a damn.
Could be a technology issue – the had to revert to a backup method of coded comms after their primary method (whatever it was) failed for some reason.
Receiving a radio signal is a passive experience that is pretty much impossible to trace. Retrieving a file from the Internet requires active involvement from the recipient and can be traced. If the spy uses TOR he can be caught if the data travels even once through a compromised node.