Outside media seeping into N. Korea

Thoughtful piece by Matthew Pennington of the Associated Press on how the outside world is seeping into North Korea. It appears to be a function of omnipresent nearby signals from outside and materials like DVDs that are doing the job. A study has found that nearly half of North Koreans have watched a foreign DVD, the most commonly used type of outside media. About a quarter of people have listened to a foreign radio news broadcast while in North Korea or watched a foreign news station. Nearly one-third of television watchers whose sets were fixed to state-run programming had modified them in order to capture a signal from outside stations detectable along the Chinese and South Korean borders.