North Korea Removing Border Loudspeakers: Seoul Military

North Korea had used the loudspeakers to transmit bizarre, unsettling noises along the border that had become a major nuisance for South Korean locals (Credit: AFP)

North Korean troops have started removing propaganda loudspeakers used to blare unsettling noises along the border, South Korea's military said Saturday, days after Seoul's new administration dismantled ones on its side of the frontier.

The two countries had already halted propaganda broadcasts along the demilitarised zone, Seoul's military said in June after the election of President Lee Jae Myung, who is seeking to ease tensions with Pyongyang.