South Korea’s military said Friday it had begun constant daily loudspeaker broadcasts on the border with North Korea, featuring mainly anti-Communist content, news banned by the Kim regime and popular South Korean music.
North Korea’s communist dictatorship tightly controls the media its citizens can legally view and has long stated that South Korean loudspeaker broadcasts are one of the most irritating acts against the regime. All media not produced by North Korea’s communist regime is illegal in the country, ensuring that its citizens are not properly informed about the outside world.
South Korea shelved loudspeakers strung across the border area known as the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) in June in response to North Korea’s continuing campaign of dumping garbage-filled balloons into the South. North Korea resumed dumping “garbage balloons” following a ruling by South Korea’s Supreme Court. decision The court ruled that it was unconstitutional for the government to block activists from sending balloons loaded with political pamphlets and food into North Korea, as many anti-Communist groups have traditionally done.
The dictator Kim Jong Un’s regime Flew More than 2,000 garbage balloons have been dumped into South Korea since May, including 200 dropped overnight between Thursday and Friday. Only about 40 of them made it across the border, due to weather conditions at the time. Korea JoongAng Ilbo report on friday.
“if [the South] If the scum continue to play rough and dirty, [North] “The status quo in North Korea will inevitably change,” Kim Jong Un’s sister, Kim Yo Jong, warned on Tuesday ahead of the latest balloon drops.
South Korea’s military confirmed the balloons contained mostly paper and did not appear to contain any dangerous materials, and released a statement announcing it would be broadcast 24 hours a day over the border loudspeaker system.
“These acts are clearly [sic] South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) warned that “this act violates the armistice agreement and is a shameful and indecent act that could pose a danger to the daily lives of our people.” Said “We urge them to immediately stop this vile, shameful and vulgar behaviour,” the group said in a statement, according to Reuters.
Similarly, Korea’s KBS World Confirmed It announced Friday that the broadcast will be “daily for the time being.”
The broadcast began on Thursday night and ended around 4 a.m. local time on Friday. Central News reportThe broadcast ended on Friday before an announcement was made later that the loudspeakers would continue to operate. Neither the station nor other South Korean broadcasters would disclose the content of the broadcast.
North and South Korea have technically been at war since 1950, when communist North Korea, led by founder Kim Il-sung, attacked South Korea in an attempt to impose communism across the Korean peninsula. A 1953 armistice ended fighting, but the war never officially ended as neither side signed a peace treaty or surrendered.
South Korea began weaponizing loudspeaker broadcasts against North Korea in 1963 but had not used them for a decade until President Yun Seok-yeol approved their resumption in June. That month, Seoul aired one episode of a program called “Voice of Korea,” which delivered outside world news, anti-North Korean statements, weather forecasts and other information. South Korean media reported that the station also aired songs by South Korean superstar boy band BTS, whose members are currently on hiatus as most of them are serving in the military, which is mandatory for South Korean men.
“If North Korea ignores our warnings and repeats similar acts, our military will ensure that it takes all necessary measures to ensure that North Korea pays fair compensation,” South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said. Warned.
Tensions between the two Koreas have risen this summer as dictator Kim Jong Un has succeeded in forging closer ties with neighboring Russia. Russian dictator Vladimir Putin has vocally supported Kim Jong Un in continuing his invasion of neighboring Ukraine, and visited Pyongyang in June to sign a mutual defense treaty, which has greatly alarmed South Korea as it could be interpreted as requiring Russia to take action against South Korea if North Korea interprets its actions as a military attack. Strangely aggressive behavior between Koreans, including “trash balloons” and loud music, is in many ways an attempt to make the 1953 armistice agreement obsolete and avoid actions that could reignite a hot war between the two Koreas.
South Korea has publicly speculated that it may provide military assistance to Ukraine in response to Putin’s visit to Pyongyang.
“As for the supply of lethal weapons to combat zones in Ukraine, that would be a very big mistake,” Putin told reporters in late June. “I hope that doesn’t happen. If it does, we will have to make our own decision, but the current leadership in South Korea probably wouldn’t be happy about it.”
The South Korean government subsequently stated that it would not take such action unless the Russian government took threatening actions against it.
