Seoul Awaits Pyongyang’s Response on Loudspeakers

2025-08-05 08:00:09

(MENAFN) South Korea announced on Tuesday that North Korea has yet to take any steps toward removing its own border loudspeakers, even after Seoul began taking down its devices to ease tensions, according to domestic press sources.

Colonel Lee Sung-jun, a spokesperson for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, stated that by Tuesday, there had been no sign of activity from the North Korean military indicating any dismantling of their loudspeakers, as reported by a news agency.

"Only daily activities were detected," Lee noted during his routine media briefing.

His comments followed the South Korean military’s initiation of efforts to take down propaganda loudspeakers stationed near the frontier with North Korea on Monday, in an initiative designed to de-escalate strained inter-Korean relations.

This step was implemented under two months after President Lee Jae Myung instructed a halt to the loudspeaker operations in forward areas, aiming to create a better atmosphere for dialogue with Pyongyang.

South Korea had reinstated the loudspeaker messaging in June last year, marking the first time in six years, as a countermeasure to North Korea’s repeated dispatch of trash-filled balloons over the heavily secured demilitarized zone.

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