This paper excerpt is a follow-up to a previous posting examining the accuracy and timeliness of disease outbreaks in North Korea, outbreaks reported by North Korean defectors living in the South. The previous posting examined the reliability of defector reporting using Chinese cellphones along the North’s border with China – where the signal from Chinese cellphone towers bleeds a few miles into the North. This posting looks at defector reporting of the North’s late 2009 currency reform that used satellite phones to make the initial reports. Satellite phones, just like Chinese cellphones, are illegal in North Korea and using them to report on conditions inside the North to a foreign audience would likely result in the caller being jailed, or worse.