Sunday 9 June 2024 – 22:31
South Korea announced Sunday that it would resume its loudspeaker propaganda campaigns against the North, the president’s office said, after Pyongyang sent a fresh barrage of trash-filled balloons across the border.
“We will install loudspeakers against North Korea today and carry out the broadcast,” it said in a statement, adding that “the responsibility for the escalation of tension between the two Koreas will be entirely up to the North.”
The speakers, as tall as 6 meters and 3 meters wide, can blast sound more than 20km into North Korea.
Former South Korean president Park Geun-Hye called the speakers in 2016 “the most effective form of psychological warfare,” encouraging many North Koreans to defect.
The speakers play world news, commentary on North Korea’s political system, and weather reports, interspersed with K-pop hits.
