South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff reported on Monday that its military had detected signs of North Korea installing loudspeakers along the border, but stressed that Seoul would not be broadcasting any propaganda today.
The move comes days after Seoul announced that it would restore military activity along the Korean Demilitarized Zone in response to Pyongyang's trash-filled balloons. Over the weekend, South Korea resumed propaganda loudspeaker broadcasts toward North Korea for the first time in six years. Kim Yo-jong, a member of North Korea's State Affairs Commission (SAC), warned of "new responses" if South Korea persisted in sending anti-North Korea leaflets across the border and broadcasting loudspeaker messages, describing it as a "prelude to a very dangerous situation."
The loudspeaker campaign was entirely discontinued in 2018 during the tenure of South Korea's President Moon Jae-in.
