South Korea dismantles its propaganda loudspeakers on the border

Seoul – South Korea, President Lee Jae Myung’s liberal administration of Pyongyang, tried to improve broken relations, the anti -North Korean propaganda began to dismantle cross -border speakers.

In a statement, the spokesman of the Ministry of Defense said that lifting is a practical measure to alleviate tensions between Korea without affecting the stance of the army’s ready -made stance ”.

The movement monks to suspend the propaganda publications in June and the suspension of Lee, a consensus advocate that frames more warmer relations with North Korea as an economic benefit – a way to minimize a long -term geopolitical responsibility for South Korea’s stock market to be inadequate.

In a press conference held last month, Lee said, “Strengthening the peace in the border regions, helping to alleviate all the tensions in South Korea, and increasing dialogue and change will improve the economic situation,” he said.

It was first used by North Korea in 1962, a year later, with the suit, propaganda speakers have long been a descriptive feature of the warm and cold relationship between Seoul and Pyongyang, opened and closed with the network and decrease of honor.

The last great stop was in a detection period in 2004 and lasted until 2015, when the two South Korean soldiers, which were placed by the border, were injured by military authorities secretly by North Korean soldiers.

The broadcasts of South Korea, which was played by the speakers in DMZ, which is a 2.5 mile -wide land between the two countries, or the demilitarized zone, South Korea created live songs and propaganda by soldiers once deployed along the border. In recent years, however, the speakers have played pre-planned programming from direct Spprobrium to listeners-pro-southern Korean sympathy to equip them with a thinner messaging.

Programming included K-Pop songs, which doubled as a flawed invitation to South Korea, K-Pop songs, “Come on, come on, don’t turn me down and don’t approach me and approach me” or lying in the righteousness of power and sometimes this afternoon will rain.

In the maximum number of low probability of reaching large population centers in North Korea, the effectiveness of such publications is questioned by some experts.

Nevertheless, a few North Korean defectors showed their publications as part of their decided to escape to South Korea. A former artillery officer who fled in 2013 remembered that it was partly won with air reports.

“South Korea broadcasting until then,” South Korean broadcasting to the South Korean media last year, “South Korean broadcasting will always rain,” he said.

South Korean army K-9 self-driven howitzers take positions in Paju near the North Korean border.

(Ahn Young-Joon / Associated Press)

However, North Korea sees broadcasts as a provocation and threatened to retaliate frequently with military action. In 2015, Pyongyang fired a rocket to a South Korean speaker and made this threat well and led to the exchange of artillery fire between the two troops.

Such sensitivities have also made the speakers in South Korea controversial, the residents of the border villages complain about the noise, and the dangers of military conflicts erupted near their homes.

“At night, [North Korea] He plays frightening sounds like the voice of animals, infants or crying women, ”Such a calm said to President Lee in June when he visited his village shortly after both sides stopped broadcasts.“ It made me sick. Even sleeping pills did not work. “

However, it is doubtful that the removal alone will be sufficient for a diplomatic breakthrough.

The relations between Seoul and Pyongyang are in a deep colds after a separate dialogue between Kim and later South Korean President Moon Jae-in, as well as the failure of the nuclear weapons of the nuclear weapons between Trump and Kim Jong Un.

Tensions increased during the subsequent conservative administration of Yoon Suk Yeol, the president of South Korea from 2022. Yoon is currently being investigated by a private advisor on allegations that South Korean military drones have ordered to fly through Pyongyang last October.

The deputies of the ruling party claimed that the movement aimed to cause a war with North Korea, and in doing so, it guaranteed the legal reason for Yoon’s declaration of martial law in December.

During the reign of Yoon, Kim Jong Un foreseen any compromise with Seoul while expanding the nuclear weapon program.

According to a statement made by Kim Yo Jong, the younger sister of the North Korean leader, published by the State News Agency KCNA last month, this posture has not changed even under the pro -commitment Lee.

“The Lee Jae Myung government can act as if he could act as if he could do all kinds of right things to imitate other citizens and attract our attention, no matter how desperate they cannot turn the hands of the history that radically changes the character of DPRK-ROK relationships,” he said.