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Seoul to resume loudspeaker propaganda broadcasts into North Korea

File photo: South Korean soldiers dismantle loudspeakers near the demilitarized zone in 2018. Seoul announced that propaganda broadcasts would resume on June 9, 2024, in response to North Korea's trash balloons. © Kim Hong-Ji, Reuters

South Korea announced Sunday that it would resume loudspeaker propaganda campaigns against the North after Pyongyang sent a fresh barrage of trash-filled balloons across the border.

Relations between the two Koreas are at one of their lowest points in years and in recent weeks the two have engaged in a tit-for-tat campaign of balloon launches, with analysts warning the escalatory cycle could end in actual military skirmishes.

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