It comes a week after the country elected a new president, who vowed to improve Korean relations.

SEOUL, South Korea: South Korea’s military has shut down loudspeakers broadcasting anti-North Korean propaganda along the inter-Korean border, in a move aimed at easing tensions.…

The South resumed loudspeaker broadcasts in June 2024 after a pause, responding to North Korea’s trash-laden balloon campaign.

It comes a week after the country elected a new president, who vowed to improve Korean relations.

Lee Jae-myung, the new president of South Korea, said he would stop the propaganda broadcasts by his predecessor that raised tensions with Seoul’s neighboring foe.

South Korea suspended its propaganda loudspeaker broadcasts across the border to North Korea, officials said Tuesday, in a bid to reduce tensions with Pyongyang under the…

Move comes as country’s new Left-wing government attempts to cool tensions with neighbour

North Korea appears to have stopped broadcasting loud noises towards the South, Seoul's military said Thursday, one day after South Korea halted its anti-Pyongyang loudspeaker…

Pyongyang’s cessation of loudspeaker broadcasts does not signal a shift in its indifferent policy towards ties with Seoul, analysts say.