Wouldn't work. They'll just go around confiscating all the wireless stuff and switch to land lines. Anything that's remote enough that landlines will be a hassle will need repeater towers anyhow, and those can be turned off with a throw of the switch at a moment's notice (provided they're manned, anyhow).
We could start dropping pallets with radios and food on them, but they'd take that as an act of war. On top of that, they'll tell their people that the food is poisoned and that the radios are really bombs before they go around confiscating everything. *sighs*
EDIT: Forgot to mention. Even with something like Radio Free America going on full tilt, you have to remember that these are a very prideful and self-reliant people. In fact, they value self-reliance over just about everything else, up to and including their own survival (or at least it seems this way). North Koreans that 'flee' the country usually come back... with their pockets full of Chinese money they made working in factories or what-have-you on the other side of the border. (Can't tell me that the Chinese money isn't good there, either - they're practically the only country that trades with them anymore!)
Simply telling them that we're willing to help them isn't gonna push the right kinds of buttons. Instead we tell them something else. There is opportunity in the rest of the world, but if they want access to it they need to fight their own regime for it. That ought to appeal to their sense of self-reliance.
We could start dropping pallets with radios and food on them, but they'd take that as an act of war. On top of that, they'll tell their people that the food is poisoned and that the radios are really bombs before they go around confiscating everything. *sighs*
EDIT: Forgot to mention. Even with something like Radio Free America going on full tilt, you have to remember that these are a very prideful and self-reliant people. In fact, they value self-reliance over just about everything else, up to and including their own survival (or at least it seems this way). North Koreans that 'flee' the country usually come back... with their pockets full of Chinese money they made working in factories or what-have-you on the other side of the border. (Can't tell me that the Chinese money isn't good there, either - they're practically the only country that trades with them anymore!)
Simply telling them that we're willing to help them isn't gonna push the right kinds of buttons. Instead we tell them something else. There is opportunity in the rest of the world, but if they want access to it they need to fight their own regime for it. That ought to appeal to their sense of self-reliance.