NYT > World News Kim Seongmin, Defector Who Pierced North Korea by Radio, Dies at 63 Par :Choe Sang-Hun 14 septembre 2025 à 13:17 As a military propagandist, he fled the North by jumping off a train. In the South, he broadcast forbidden outside news to isolated North Koreans. © Chang W. Lee/The New York TimesKim Seongmin last November. His shortwave radio reports brought North Koreans information they could not get through their government-controlled news media.