South Korea's loudspeaker propaganda against its northern neighbor has included pop music and news, among other things. But on Wednesday afternoon local time, the country's defense ministry announced that the broadcasts will be stopped.
The tactic has been used at the border before and was then stopped. They were resumed in June last year as a response to North Korea sending balloons filled with trash over the border to the south. According to North Korea, the balloons were a response to activists sending leaflets with propaganda critical of the regime in Pyongyang.
When South Korea recently elected Lee Jae-Myung as its new president, he promised to restore trust in the relationship between South Korea and North Korea and work for peace on the Korean Peninsula.
The relationship between the neighbors has deteriorated during the time of former president Yoon Suk-Yeol's tenure. He was impeached, accused of treason, due to his declaration of a sudden state of emergency with martial law in December last year.
The two countries have never signed a peace treaty after the war of 1950-1953, and a ceasefire is still in effect.
