Seoul eliminates propaganda speakers to indicate a change in policy under the administration of President Lee.
The South Korean authorities began to eliminate the speakers that smile north anti-core transmissions along the country's border, said Seoul Ministry of National Defense, as the new government of President Lee Jae-Myung seeks to relieve tensions with Pyongyang.
“As of today, the military has begun to eliminate the speakers,” said Lee Kyung-Ho on Monday, spokesman for the South Korean Ministry of Defense, to journalists on Monday.
Shortly after assuming the position in June, the Lee administration turned off the propaganda transmissions criticizing the North Korean regime, since it seems to revive the dialogue stagnated with its neighbor.
But North Korea recently rejected the Oberturas and said he had no interest in speaking with South Korea.
Countries remain technically at war because the 1950-53 Korean war ended in an armistice, not in a peace treaty, and relations have deteriorated in recent years.
“It is a practical measure aimed at helping to relieve tensions with the north, provided that such actions do not compromise the state of preparation of the military,” the ministry said in a statement on Monday.
At the end of the week, all the speakers established along the border will be disassembled, he added, but did not reveal the exact number that would be removed.
President Lee, recently elected after his predecessor was accused of an abortive martial law declaration, had ordered the military to stop the transmissions in an attempt to “restore confidence.”
The relations between the two Koreas had been at one of their lowest points in years, with Seoul taking a hard line towards Pyongyang, which has increasingly approached Moscow following the large -scale invasion of Ukraine of Russia.
The previous government began the transmissions last year in response to a flood of balloons full of garbage flown south by Pyongyang.
But Lee promised to improve relations with North Korea and reduce tensions in the Korean Peninsula.
Despite his diplomatic Obertures, North Korea has rejected the search for dialogue with his neighbor.
“If the rok … I will wait for all the results I had done with some sentimental words, nothing is [a] More serious malculiance … “, Kim Yo Jong, sister of the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, said last week, using the acronym for the official name of South Korea, Republic of Korea.
Lee has said that he would seek conversations with North Korea without conditions, following a deep freezing under his predecessor.
