S. Korean Military to Conduct Propaganda Broadcasts Every Day for Time Being l KBS WORLD

The South Korean army has determined to conduct propaganda broadcasts by way of loudspeakers alongside the inter-Korean border each day in the interim in response to North Korea sending trash-carrying balloons to the South yesterday

The Joint Chiefs of Workers(JCS) mentioned in a press release that it’s going to implement the continued transmitting of the propaganda broadcasts from 4 p.m. Friday. 

The transfer got here after the army launched the psychological warfare operation from Thursday night to early hours Friday in areas close to the place the balloons had been launched. 

Within the assertion, the JCS mentioned the South Korean army will take stronger countermeasures, together with transmitting the propaganda broadcasts in a full-fledged method, if the North’s army once more pursues varied provocations, together with sending trash-carrying balloons. 

The JCS estimates North Korea floated round 200 trash-carrying balloons throughout the border in a single day, with greater than 40 confirmed to have dropped within the northern a part of Gyeonggi Province. This comes 22 days after the earlier launch and most of them contained paper trash.