A South Korean soldier is visualized throughout a live drill to relay propaganda to individuals of North Korea on Sunday, June 9, 2024. Picture thanks to South Korea Joint Chiefs of Staff
June 9 (UPI)– South Korea’s armed force has actually resumed speaker propaganda broadcasts to weaken the program of Supreme Leader Kim Jong-Un after North Korea sent out around a thousand balloons filled with garbage over the border.
The military performed the broadcast Sunday afternoon, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff stated in a declaration on social networks.
“Whether our armed force will carry out extra speaker broadcasts depends totally on North Korea’s habits,” the Joint Chiefs of Staff stated in its declaration. “We make it clear that North Korea bears complete duty for this circumstance, and we highly advise it to right away stop its despicable habits, consisting of the release of dirt balloons.”
Previously, the Joint Chiefs of Staff stated it had actually carried out a live drill in preparation for the broadcast. It marked the very first time given that 2018 that the armed force has actually carried out such a drill, that includes moving and setting up speakers and mastering running treatments.
The South Korean armed force stated the drill and operation were made “to notify North Korean soldiers and locals about the truth of North Korea, South Korea’s advancement, and K-culture.” North Korea has yet to react to South Korea’s broadcast.
South Korea started the broadcasts in 1963 to target North Korean soldiers and civilians living near the Demilitarized Zone with Korean popular song, referred to as K-Pop, and news from outdoors North Korea.
The broadcasts were stopped around 2004 and resumed in 2015 before they were stopped once again in 2018, when both sides consented to dismantle their speakers. In June 2020, North Korea was reported to have actually started re-installing its speakers.
South Korea’s choice followed its Joint Chiefs of Staff stated North Korea had actually sent out slurries of white balloons filled with garbage and manure in action to South Korean activists drifting balloons filled with brochures and USB drives over the border.
