Seoul, South Korea-South Korean army on Wednesday closed loudspeakers to broadcast the propagation of-north-north Korea along the inter-class border, marking the first concrete steps of the new Liberal government towards reducing tension between war-ridden rivals.

South resumed the daily loudspeaker broadcast in June last year, which was after a year for a year in vengeance to blow up the garbage -filled balloons in a psychological war campaign for North Korea.

The South Korean Ministry of Defense said that the step ordered by President Li J-Mung was part of the efforts to restore confidence in inter-curious relations and promote peace on the Korean peninsula. “

Lee’s spokesperson Kong You-Jung described the decision as a “active step” to reduce military tension and reduce the burden for South Korean people living in the border areas, which have also been influenced by North Korea’s Anti-Korea’s Radio loudspeakers.

North Korea, who is extremely sensitive to any external criticism of its totalitarian leadership and its third generation ruler Kim Jong Un did not immediately comment on Seoul’s move.

South Korea re-activated its front-line loudspeakers to explode the promotional messages and ke-pop songs in response to thousands of waste balloons, which Pyongyang flew towards South Korea, which included waste, cloth scraps, cigarette butts and even manure.

According to the South Army, from May to November last year, North Korea flown around 7,000 balloons towards South Korea on 32 different occasions. In the north, it is said that after the South Korean activists were sent to balloons filled with anti-North Korean sheet, its balloon campaign came, as well as the USB Stick was full of popular South Korean songs and plays.

The garbage made by at least one North Korean balloons fell into the premises of the South Korean President in July, increasing concern about the vulnerability of the major South Korean facilities. Officials said there was no dangerous material in the balloon and no one was hurt.

The South broadcast playlist was clearly designed to attack a nerve in Pyongyang, where Kim’s government is intensifying a campaign to eliminate the impact of South Korean pop culture and language among the population in the dialect to strengthen its family’s dynastic rule.

Cold War-style psychological warfasts promoted South Korean efforts to expand North Korea’s growing nuclear ambitions and joint military exercises with the United States and to strengthen three-way security cooperation with Japan.

Efforts to improve relations

Lee, an outspoken liberal, who took over last week, after winning an early election to change Conservative Yun Suk Yeol, vowed to improve relations with Pyongyang, which shook the hard-line policies and dialogues.

During his election campaign, Lee promised to stop loudspeakers broadcasting, arguing that he created unnecessary tension and inconvenience to South Korean residents in border cities. In recent months, those inhabitants had complained about North Korea’s vertical broadcasts, including haoling animals, sharp gongs, and other irritable sounds. On Thursday morning, the South Korean army stated that the North Korean broadcast was not heard in the South Korean frontline areas, but it was not clear whether North had formally stopped its broadcast.

On Monday, in a briefing, the Ministry of Integration of South Korea, which handles inter-curios cases, also asked South Korean civilian workers to stop border-and-north-north Korean propaganda. Such activities “can increase tension on the Korean peninsula and endanger the lives and security of the residents in the border areas,” said the ministry spokesman Ku Bangsam.

In his inaugural address last week, Lee vowed reopening the communication channels with North Korea. But the chances of the initial resumption of dialogue between rival Korea are slow. North Korea has consistently rejected proposals from South Korea and the United States since 2019, when the nuclear dialogue between Washington and Pyongyang fell to disagreement related to restrictions.

North atoms remain danger

North Korea’s priority in foreign policy is now strongly with Russia, which has found thousands of North Korean troops and large quantities of military equipment in recent months for war with Ukraine. South Korean and American officials have expressed concern that Kim in turn can seek Russian technology transfer that may increase the danger generated by her nuclear weapons and missile programs.

The martial law was removed from the office in April on its short -term imposition, Yun focused on strengthening military partnership with Washington and Tokyo and acquiring a strong American assurance of a fast and decisive nuclear reaction to strengthen the military partnership with Washington and Tokyo.

In a terrible response to Yun’s policies, Kim announced in January 2024 that he was leaving the long -standing goals of a peaceful integration with the South and directed the rewriting of the North Constitution to be cement to South as a permanent “major enemy.

After years of testing activity, Kim has acquired a wide range of missiles that can potentially target rivals in Asia and American mainland. He has also called for an increase in production of nuclear materials to make more bombs.

Rafael Mariano Gosi, director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said on Monday that the United Nations Atomic Watchdog is monitoring the indication that North Korea could create a new uranium-promotion plant in its main nuclear campus in Yongbean.