Welcome to Double Take. I'm Les Sillers, and today we have the conclusion of a two-part story called

The Freedom Show. Part one aired last week, so if you haven't listened to that one yet, you might

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comes in. Here we go. The Freedom Show, Part 2. When I started reporting this story, I thought

that North Koreans listened to foreign shortwave broadcasts huddled fearfully in their closets,

late at night, on contraband radios, with the volume weighed down lest a neighbor overhears and turns them in to be executed.

But when I ran this image past Suzanne Schulte, one of the founders of Free North Korea Radio, she said it's not quite like that anymore.

Yeah, I think in 1998, if you got caught, you would be sent in for detention, questioned, possibly sent to a political

prison camp if they found out about some of the programs you heard. But now they've decriminalized

it because there's so many people that are getting outside information. These days, people are

cautious. They use earphones. They don't show strangers their screens, but they don't need to be paranoid.

Experts estimate that perhaps 60% of North Koreans

regularly get information from outside the country.

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