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South Korea suspends anti-Pyongyang loudspeaker broadcasts at border

2018-04-23 15 Dailymotion

대북확성기 중단, 키리졸브 훈련 시작<br /><br /> South Korea has suspended the loudspeaker broadcasts that for months were blasting propaganda across the inter-Korean border.<br />They speakers had carried criticisms of the North Korean regime and even South Korean music.<br />But the decision to stop the broadcasts was made in light of this Friday's inter-Korean summit.<br />Park Ji-won has more. <br /> From Monday,... South Korea suspended its anti-Pyongyang, anti-Kim Jong-un regime broadcasts from its loudspeakers along the border between the two Koreas.<br />South Korea's defense ministry said the decision to suspend propaganda broadcasts from some 40 broadcast speakers along the border was to ease tensions on the Korean peninsula,... and to create a peaceful atmosphere for the summit talks. <br /><br /> "We hope this suspension contributes to stopping mutual slander and propaganda between the two Koreas,... and to achieving a new beginning of peace."<br /><br /> Meanwhile, starting this Monday, South Korea and the United States start their annual military exercise as planned.<br />Key Resolve is a two-week command-post exercise with computer-based simulations in two parts,... one, responding to a hypothetical attack by North Korea, and the other, an allied counterattack.<br />Some 12-thousand troops from South Korea and the U.S. will participate in the exercise,... which is similar in size to last year's. <br />South Korea's defense ministry said it has yet to decide whether the exercise will take place on Friday -- the day of the summit.<br />The South Korean Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Jeong Kyeong-doo and his U.S. counterpart General Vincent Brooks,... will make a final decision on the matter early this week.<br /> The four-week Foal Eagle field-training exercise is also underway,.. but the exercise has been low-key compared to past drills, with no media exposure.<br />Park Ji-won, Arirang News. <br />

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