South Korea begins removing border propaganda speakers in conciliatory gesture toward North
Seoul, South Korea (AP) – South Korean army said he started to remove the speakers along the rival North Korean border with a movement aiming to reduce tensions.
The speakers had previously been used to explode anti -northern Korean propaganda at the border, but the new liberal government of the South Publications stopped in June In recent years, with a conciliatory gesture of reconstructing confidence with Pyongyang, which has largely cut off its cooperation with the South, it is a conciliatory gesture.
South Korean Defense Ministry said that the physical abolition of speakers from the border did not affect the tensions between the divided of war and the South’s military preparation.
Lee Kyung-Ho, the spokesman of the ministry, did not share certain details that the removal speakers would not be stored or if the tensions shine between the Koreas again. During a briefing, Lee said there was no discussion between the two troops before the South’s decision to issue speakers.
North Korea, who is extremely sensitive to the external criticism of the authoritarian leadership and the third generation manager Kim Jong Un, did not comment on the name of South Korea.
South’s previous conservative government continued its daily speaker broadcasts in June last year after a pause for retaliation for North Korean flight. Garbage -loaded balloons Towards the south in a psychological war campaign.
Speakers detonated propaganda messages and K-Pop songs, a clearly designed playlist in Pyongyang, a campaign to eliminate the influence of South Korea pop culture and language to strengthen the dynasty rule of Kim’s government and the population.
Cold War -style psychological war campaigns further increased the tensions that were inflamed with the cooperation of three -sided security in cooperation with Japan, efforts to expand joint military exercises with South Korea and the United States with South Korea.
South Korea President Lee Jae Myung promised to develop relations with Pyongyang, who reacts angrily to Yoon’s challenging policies and avoided dialogues after winning an early election to replace the conservative Yoon Suk Yeol.
But who yo Jong, influential sister North Korean leader rejected transfer Last week, Lee’s government said that Seoul’s “blind confidence” in the country’s alliance with the United States and hostility towards North Korea did not make it different from the conservative predecessor. His comments implied that North Korea is now engaged in expansion. Cooperation with Russia During the war in Ukraine – it does not feel urgency to continue diplomacy with Seoul and Washington recently.
