As part of efforts to bring back peace on the Korean Peninsula...
South Korea started to dimantle propaganda-broadcasting loudspeakers set up along border line today.
This comes as the two Koreas agreed last Friday... to stop all hostile acts from May 1st... and
to get rid of the means to carry out such acts,.. including broadcasting propaganda
through loudspeakers... and distributing leaflets in the areas along the demilitarized zone.
And military officials here in Seoul said today,... that North Korea also seems to have
starting taking down its own loudspeakers.
These loudspeakers go way back in time... with South Korea having started broadcasting
propaganda messages to the North using the loudspeakers in 1963... with only a few breaks
since then.
The *current loudspeaker broadcasts restarted in January 2016,... in response to North Korea's
fourth nuclear test.
South Korea's defense ministry, meanwhile, assured the public that the military is maintaining
its utmost readiness and preparedness,... while doing its best to carry out the measures
of the Panmunjom Declaration.
And to tell us more about this, as well as the latest developments regarding North Korea,...
Dr. Bong Young-shik, a researcher at the Yonsei Institute for North
Korean Studies, joins us
in
the studio today.
Good
to
see you.
Pleasure to
be here.