A RADIO buff who tuned in to a North Korean broadcast was in for the shock of his life when a propaganda package from Pyongyang arrived at his house.

Jordan Heyburn, from Armagh, used his shortwave radio to listen to a program transmitted by the secretive state.

4 Jordan Heyburn from Armagh who received a bizarre package from Pyongyang Credit: Credit: Pen News/Jordan Heyburn

So he decided to send a reception report to the station, a common courtesy among radio enthusiasts meant to show that a broadcast was received.

But he couldn't have anticipated the reply, which included newspapers and magazines, a book, a personal note and even an English-language program schedule.

Mr Heyburn, 26, admitted that he hadn't expected the North to get back to him.

He said: "I ended up getting the thought to contact them when a friend of mine mentioned to me that if I were to send in a reception report, I could get a verification card and other goodies.

"With email access in North Korea sadly not being monitored as much I decided to go down the route of pen and paper.

4 The note Jordan received in the propaganda package from North Korea Credit: Credit: Pen News/Jordan Heyburn

"I was initially quite doubtful I would get a reply as I was sending it from the UK and thought the post office may say 'we can't send this'.

"But the post office woman didn't look at it twice, she just said 'we don't often see letters addressed to Pyongyang' and that was it."

He continued: "One morning I was sitting on the stairs tying my shoes when this large brown envelope dropped into our doorway with a postmark saying Pyongyang.

"I literally had a huge grin on my face and was going, 'it's actually arrived, wow!' I opened it as carefully as I could to preserve the large envelope but I was also really excited to get it open."

4 North Korean leader Kim Jong Un Credit: Reuters

Pictures reveal the bizarre contents of the package he was sent, including copies of the Pyongyang Times, and the magazines Foreign Trade and Korea Today.

There was also a book by former leader Kim Jong-il about the "national character of the revolution and construction".

Perhaps the strangest part of the North's reply to Jordan was a personal note they sent answering his question about the weather.

Mr Heyburn said: "I asked them how the weather is treating them to which they replied, 'it's a very hot summer here in Pyongyang'.

"They also asked me how the weather was for me, and they sent their best regards to my family and said they looked forward to my reply."

4 The contents of the package Jordan received Credit: Credit: Pen News/Jordan Heyburn

A badge with a flame design, symbolising North Korea's ideology of 'Juche' or self-reliance, was included in the package as well.

Among the other items in the bundle was a postcard confirming receipt of Jordan's report and depicting Paeku Mountain, a sacred mountain where the North claims Kim Jong-il was born.

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In reality, the dictator was born Yuri Irsenovich Kim in Vyatskoye, Russia - nearly 500 miles northeast of the modern North Korean border.

Jordan's reply from Pyongyang is made all the remarkable by North Korea's famously taciturn nature.

In the past, diplomats and world leaders have been left guessing by Pyongyang, with replies to pressing matters being slow or non-existent.