{"id":57218,"date":"2026-10-22T12:03:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T06:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=57218"},"modified":"2026-10-22T12:38:36","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T06:53:36","slug":"north-korea-says-it-will-resume-propaganda-broadcasts-across-border-into-south-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/north-korea-says-it-will-resume-propaganda-broadcasts-across-border-into-south-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea says it will resume propaganda broadcasts across border into South Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"
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North Korea plans to resume anti-Seoul propaganda broadcasts along the heavily armed border with South Korea, leader Kim Jong Un\u2019s sister said, reviving a psychological warfare campaign as tensions rise after land mine blasts injured three South Korean front-line soldiers.<\/p>\n

Kim Yo Jong, her brother\u2019s top spokesperson on Washington and Seoul, made the announcement Wednesday after visiting front-line areas where North Korean troops are reinforcing the border. She renewed a threat to retaliate against any South Korean provocation aimed at the fortification work.<\/p>\n

In a follow-up statement Thursday, she said the North would place \u201cnew counter means\u201d on alert along the border and have its loudspeakers on \u201cstandby\u201d within days.<\/p>\n

North Korea has been adding mines, barbed wire fences, anti-tank barriers and other fortifications to what\u2019s already one of the world\u2019s most heavily armed borders as Kim Jong Un pushes a hard line toward Seoul.<\/p>\n

Touring the area with Marshal Pak Jong Chon, one of her brother\u2019s top military officials, Kim Yo Jong called the fortification work a \u201csacred and great undertaking\u201d supporting the leader\u2019s policy of permanently severing ties with South Korea, which he has declared his most hostile adversary amid a broader diplomatic stalemate with Washington.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur tactical hunting teams are taking new positions, and within October, the loudspeakers for psychological warfare against the ROK will be in operation along the whole border,\u201d Kim Yo Jong said, using the initials of South Korea\u2019s formal name, the Republic of Korea.<\/p>\n

She warned that if South Korean warning shots \u2014 which Seoul says are meant to force North Korean soldiers doing fortification work back across the border \u2014 cause \u201cactual harm to our territorial security and our service persons\u2019 safety,\u201d North Korean border guards \u201cwill show no mercy for the armed gangsters bereft of reason.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked about Kim Yo Jong\u2019s threat to resume the loudspeaker broadcasts, South Korean Defense Ministry spokesperson Chung Binna said Thursday that Seoul would need to take \u201cproportionate measures\u201d in response to the North\u2019s moves along the border, but did not elaborate on what steps are being considered.<\/p>\n

North Korea\u2019s state-run Korean Central News Agency first reported Kim’s border visit as Tuesday, but Kim later corrected it to early Wednesday in a separate statement.<\/p>\n

Following an inspection with the U.S.-led United Nations Command, Seoul formally blamed North Korean-planted mines for the Sept. 21 border blasts and urged the North to apologize and clear its remaining mines. North Korea denied responsibility for the explosions and warned of strong retaliation if provoked.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur military leadership underlined the need to make those rogues aware that our new firepower units have taken their firing positions,\u201d Kim told soldiers during her visit Wednesday, reminding them of her brother\u2019s order to make the border with the \u201cenemy … eternally impregnable.\u201d<\/p>\n

South Korea\u2019s military has said North Korean soldiers crossed the border\u2019s military demarcation line 50 times this year during fortification work, and that it responded with warning shots and broadcasts. Kim has said South Korean’s claims of border crossings are a \u201cfalse pretext,\u201d and that its provocations have increased \u201cbeyond the red line\u201d since the mine blasts.<\/p>\n

South Korea\u2019s Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, Jin Yong-Sung, called Kim’s threats \u201cintolerable\u201d and ordered the military to \u201csternly respond\u201d to potential provocations by the North.<\/p>\n

During Tuesday\u2019s border inspection, Pak accused the South of making \u201cdeliberate, premeditated and absurd\u201d claims to shift blame over the rising tensions and threatened an \u201coverwhelming response\u201d to South Korean provocations. He also denied that the North Korean soldiers were breaching the border during fortification work, saying \u201cour army knows where our borderline is better than any others,\u201d KCNA said.<\/p>\n

Loudspeaker broadcasts are among the Cold War-era psychological warfare tactics the two Koreas have occasionally used against each other during times of tensions.<\/p>\n

South Korea\u2019s liberal government, led by President Lee Jae Myung, halted its broadcasts after taking office last year to improve ties with the North, which later stopped its own.<\/p>\n

Kim Jong Un in recent years has cut off all diplomacy and cooperation with South Korea and declared it a permanent enemy as a yearslong stalemate in nuclear negotiations with Washington drags on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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