North Korea seen reinstalling border loudspeakers, defectors send leaflets
23 June, 2020
North Korea is reinstalling loudspeakers blaring propaganda over the border found in its latest step from inter-Korean peace agreements, prompting the South's armed service to explore similar movements, a South Korean military source said on Tuesday (Jun 23).
Tension between your two Koreas features risen in latest weeks following the North blew up a joint liaison business office on its part of the border, declared a finish to dialogue and threatened army action.
North Korea's armed service was seen adding loudspeakers near the demilitarised area (DMZ). Such devices were taken down following the two Koreas signed an accord in 2018 to cease "all hostile functions", the military official said.
"We're as well considering reinstalling our own loudspeakers," he explained. "However the North hasn't started any broadcast but, and we're just on the point of manage to counteract anytime."
A good spokeswoman at Seoul's defence ministry declined to verify North Korea's moves but reiterated at a normal briefing that Pyongyang would "need to pay for the consequences" if it continues to defy joint initiatives to foster peace.
The two countries have for many years pumped out propaganda from big banks of speakers as a form of psychological warfare. The South aired a mixture of media, Korean pop tracks and criticism of the northern regime, as the North blasted the South and praised its own socialist system.
The North commenced taking its new actions since it denounced North Korean defectors in the South sending propaganda leaflets across the border.
Several defector-led groups have regularly directed flyers, food, US$1 bills, mini radios and USB sticks containing Southern Korean dramas and news, usually by balloon or in bottles in rivers.
One group, led by Recreation area Sang-hak, who fled the isolated talk about in 2000, said in Tuesday it flew 20 balloons containing 500,000 leaflets, 500 booklets on South Korea and 2,000 US$1 charges.
South Korea's authorities pursued legal action to avoid such activities, citing safeness concerns for people in border towns, but controversy remains to be over whether it violates the country's protections for freedom of expression.
Pyongyang's state mass media said on Mon angry North Koreans have also prepared some 12 million leaflets to be repaid.
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