$8.9 million will be provided by the United States Congress to fund broadcasts aimed at reaching North Korea, members of the United States Congress agreed in a 2014 appropriations bill last week.

The legislation will also provides “Migration and Refugee Assistance” for North Koreans, as well as the creation of a “Democracy Fund” to “to establish and maintain a database 11 of prisons and gulags in North Korea”.

The fund will keep “a list of political prisoners, and such database shall be regularly updated and made publicly available on the Internet, as appropriate,” the bill reads.

Director of Research & Strategy at LiNK Sokeel Park