North Korea chief denies eradicating propaganda loudspeakers at border

[ad_1] North Korean chief Kim Jong Un's sister has rebutted South Korea's claims that Pyongyang eliminated a few of its propaganda-blasting loudspeakers alongside the border.

North Korea has "by no means eliminated" the audio system and "will not be prepared to take away them", Kim Yo Jong stated in a press release printed by state media KCNA on Thursday.

"We've got clarified on a number of events that we've no will to enhance relations with [South Korea]," she stated, including that this stance "shall be mounted in our structure sooner or later".

South Korea's navy stated earlier this week that North Korea had eliminated a few of its loudspeakers alongside the border - days after South Korea dismantled a few of its personal.

Kim, the deputy director of North Korea's propaganda division, stated Seoul's declare was an "unfounded unilateral supposition and a purple herring".

Moreover propaganda messages, South Korea's broadcasts usually blasted Ok-pop songs throughout the border. whereas North Korea performed unsettling noises reminiscent of howling animals.

South Korean residents residing close to the border had complained that their lives have been being disrupted been by the noise from each side, generally in the course of the night time.

Pyongyang considers Seoul's propaganda broadcasts an act of battle and has threatened to explode the audio system prior to now.

South Korea's speaker broadcasts resumed in June 2024 after a six yr pause beneath impeached president Yoon Suk Yeol who took a extra hardline stance towards the North.

They have been restarted after Pyongyang started sending rubbish-filled balloons to the South in response to elevated tensions.

The connection appeared to have thawed beneath new President Lee Jae Myung, who campaigned on enhancing inter-Korean ties.

South Korea halted its broadcasts alongside the demilitarised zone shortly after Lee took workplace in June, in what the nation's navy described as a bid to "restore belief" and "obtain peace on the Korean Peninsula".

Nonetheless, ties between the 2 neighbours stay uneasy. Earlier this week, North Korea warned of "resolute counteraction" to provocations forward of joint navy drills between South Korea and the US.