South Korea stops the loudspeakers that explode K-Pop to North Korea

On Wednesday, South Korea suspended the loudspeakers that were broadcasting the songs of K-POP and other news and advertising to North Korea during the past year-one of the first concrete steps it took The newly elected captain, Lee Jay MeongTo improve relations between the Koreans.

“I have his army to stop the high -energy loudspeakers on Wednesday afternoon” to help restore confidence in the South Korean and Korean relations and build peace on the Korean Peninsula. “.

Relations between the Koreans decreased to its lowest point in many years Mr. Lee, Yoon Sok YolWhen the two countries escalated to an exchange across the border. Mr. Yun supported the idea of ​​spreading external information in the isolated north. Activists in the south-most of whom were fugitives from the north-were allowed to launch large balloons loaded with advertising publications that contain bitter news and criticism of the Northern leader, Kim Jong Un, describing him as a “thirsty dictator” or “pig”.

North Korea was rough in balloons and declined last year by sending it Bannons loaded with cigarette buttocks and other garbage In the south. ​

The government of Mr. Yun responded by running the propaganda speakers a year ago, bombing soldiers and villagers along the border with K-Pop music and news. North She clarified her loudspeakersAnd strange noise broadcast that the South Korean villagers on the border found so extreme that they installed double -part windows and other sound insulation at home.

By stopping her loudspeakers first on Wednesday, Mr. Lee’s government has mainly suggested a ceasefire in the amplifier war. South Korea military officials said on Wednesday that they were watching the border to see if the north will recover by stopping the loudspeakers.

“We hope that North Korea will stop the noise attack, so that we can return to a normal life,” said Park Young Chaliol, the mayor of Guangua, a South Korean province on the border with the north.

During his campaign on the elections on Tuesday, Mr. Lee sharply criticized Mr. Yun’s policy on North Korea, accusing him of raising unnecessary tensions. He pledged to improve relations between the Koreans by seeking to restore Dialogue channelsBetween Koreans. He also said that the two Koreas should stop the procedures that sparked tensions.

Earlier this week, the government of Mr. Lee also began urging the South Korean groups not to launch the cross -border advertising balloons. He said that the balloons did more to raise political tensions with the north instead of improving their people’s access to external news.

But activists insisted that sending balloons to the north was part of the constitutionally guaranteed freedom of expression. They also accused the government of Lee to undermine the right of the North Koreans to information and to satisfy the Kim regime in the name of reducing tensions.

South Korea officials have indicated that they will consider calling local laws on aviation and public safety to eliminate attempts to send balloons. South Korea residents, along the border, complained that activist balloons threatened their safety by raising military tensions and pushing North Korea to send garbage balloons.

North Korea did not interact immediately with the latest South Korea initiative.

But she stopped sending garbage balloons since November, as South Korea has been passing through the local political turmoil that caused the shortening of Mr. Yoon in December, removing him and removing him subsequently from his post.

During the era of Mr. Kim, North Korea has grown hostile to the south. She closed all the dialogue with Seoul and Washington, and has doubled in testing missiles that could be able to nucleus. Mr. Kim pledged to treat South Korea not as a partner in reunification, but as an enemy the north should attach – if necessary, with his nuclear weapons – the war must be erupted. In October, the north was destroyed by all railway links and roads between the two Koreas with dynamite.

In the south, Mr. Yoon was a confrontation towards the north. His government expanded joint military exercises with the United States and Japan, which included aircraft carriers, strategic bombers and ghost planes, to deter Mr. Kim. Mr. Yoon called for the spread of the idea of ​​freedom in the north to penetrate the information that Mr. Kim Long intends to preserve his total rule.