SEOUL: South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol fully suspended on Tuesday a 2018 tension-reducing military deal with the North in response to a bombardm...
South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol fully suspended on Tuesday a 2018 tension-reducing military deal with the North in response to a bombardment of trash-carrying balloons sent by Pyongyang last week.
President Yoon “has just approved the ‘September 19 Military Agreement Suspension Proposal’,“ which the cabinet had already signed off on, his office said in a statement.The move will allow the South to resume live fire drills and re-start loudspeaker propaganda campaigns along the border with the North.
The loudspeaker campaigns involve South Korea using large megaphones to broadcast everything from K-pop to anti-regime propaganda into areas close to the demilitarised zone separating the two countries, which remain technically at war. An anti-Pyongyang group in the South revealed on Monday that they had sent balloons carrying around 2,000 USB flash drives containing songs by South Korea’s mega trot singer Lim Young-woong, as well as other K-pop and K-dramas, into the North on May 10.
JCS spokesperson Lee Sung-jun said that mobile loudspeakers could be operational “right away” while fixed units could take days to install. South Korea’s parliament criminalised sending leaflets to the North in 2020 but the law -- which did not deter the activists -- was struck down last year as a violation of free speech.
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