Seoul says it will resume loudspeaker propaganda against North

This picture taken on June 1, 2024 and released from North Korea 's official Korean Central News Agency via KNS on June 2, 2024 shows North Korea n leader Kim Jong Un speaking as he attends the opening ceremony of the Central Cadre School of the Workers' Party of Korea in Pyongyang.SEOUL, South Korea —

"We will install loudspeakers against North Korea today and carry out the broadcast," the president's office said in a statement, adding that "the responsibility for the escalation of tension between the two Koreas will be entirely up to the North". Pyongyang sent nearly a thousand balloons across the border in late May and early June before calling off its campaign. It restarted on Saturday in response to new launches last week by the activists, against which Seoul's government has almost no legal recourse.

The loudspeaker broadcasts, a tactic which dates back to the 1950-1953 Korean War, infuriate Pyongyang, which has previously threatened artillery strikes against the loudspeaker units unless they were switched off. In 2018, during a period of improved inter-Korean relations, the leaders of the two Koreas agreed to "completely cease all hostile acts", including stopping the leaflets.

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