Kevin Allison is a Senior Editor for Signal. Based in Washington DC, he looks at how technology is reshaping global affairs. Kevin is also a Director in the Geo-Technology practice at Eurasia Group. Kevin holds degrees from the University of Missouri and from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. He was also a Fulbright Scholar in Vienna, Austria and a 2015 Miller Journalism Fellow at the Santa Fe Institute. Prior to GZERO Media and Eurasia Group, Kevin was a journalist at Reuters and the Financial Times. He has lived in eight US states and has been an expat four times.
North and South Korea began dismantling loudspeakers along their shared border this week (pictured above, in Paju South Korea). It’s an easy show of goodwill after the two sides agreed to silence cross-border propaganda broadcasts and halt leaflet drops during last week’s historic meeting between North and South. Cynics will note that South Korea’s speakers have fallen quiet before, only to resume blaring southern propaganda and K-pop following a North Korean nuclear test in 2016. Signal prefers to take the positive view: For now, at least, people on both sides of the world’s most dangerous border can enjoy some peace and quiet.
