Shiokaze Sea Breeze: Haunting shortwave radio signal to Japanese abductees in North Korea

Shiokaze Sea Breeze is a radio station run by a private organisation in Japan called the Investigation Commission on Missing Japanese Probably Related to North Korea (COMJAN). The station targets Japanese abductees in Japan, people who were abducted in the 1970s and 1980s from beaches and streets in Japan, by North Korean agents.

Transmissions are mostly in Korean and Japanese and usually consist of news and messages from family members. There is one broadcast a week in English, on Wednesdays, from 16:00 to 17:00 UTC. This is a clip of the English transmission on 5975 kHz, received on the Qodosen DX-286.

You can hear some clear station IDs in this video, and jingles. Also some news clips. There are two announcements about the station itself and its role in targeting Japanese abductees in North Korea.

Received in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Qodosen DX-286 with a 10 metre external long wire as antenna.

00:00 Shiokaze in English
01:17 News about North Korean issues
01:40 Station ID and information
04:55 Same information, repeated
06:10 Jingle and news clips
06:22 Station ID and more news