BBC to provide North Korea and Eritrea with radio services as part of £85m boost to World Service

The BBC has announced it will launch new radio services in North Korea and Eritrea as part of the government’s promise to invest £85m ($128m) a year in the World Service by 2017/18. The government announced the “single biggest increase in the World Service budget ever committed” during its national Strategic Defence and Security Review as part of its plan to reach 500 million people across the world by 2022.