North Korea appears to follow the South in suspending loudspeaker broadcasts

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea appears to person stopped loudspeakers adjacent the borderline targeting South Korea, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said Thursday.

The JCS said that North Korean loudspeaker broadcasts were not heard connected Thursday, and the South Korean subject was monitoring Pyongyang’s activities.

Seoul suspended its ain loudspeaker broadcasts adjacent the borderline targeting North Korea connected Wednesday, aft having resumed propaganda and K-pop blasts past twelvemonth during a clip of increasing hostility with its neighbor.

South Korean President Lee Jae-myung, who took bureau this period vowing to resume dialog with the North, ordered the determination to easiness tension, trim subject confrontation and physique trust, his spokesperson said, arsenic North Korea has refrained from provocations lately.

Those surviving adjacent the heavy fortified borderline person opposed the loudspeaker broadcasts, which they blasted for terrible sound nuisance.

Seoul’s resumption past July of a round-the-clock run of loudspeaker broadcasts was successful effect to Pyongyang’s motorboat of balloons carrying trash implicit the border, the South’s subject said astatine the time.

Pyongyang had said the balloons were retaliation for a propaganda run by North Korean defectors and activists successful the South who regularly nonstop inflatables with anti-Pyongyang leaflets and different items crossed the border.

The 2 Koreas stay technically astatine warfare since an armistice ended warring successful the 1950-53 Korean War.