South Korea Installs Speakers With A Voice Range Of 20 Km, Sets K-Pop Songs With The Latest Reply To North Korean Waste Balloons

JAKARTA - South Korea and North Korea's Tennision is increasing. Despite being warned by North Korea, South Korea is now preparing to install speakers by tuning K-Pop songs as a reply to what North Korea calls propaganda.

South Korea's broadcast includes world news and information about democratic society and capital, with popular K-pop music blends.

The noise is believed to have spread more than 20 kilometers to North Korea, although some analysts say the actual reach is much smaller.

Steve Tharp, a retired US Army officer who spent years working along the DMZ, said broadcasts over loudspeakers from both sides sounded day and night when he was assigned as infantry in the 1980s.

The voice speaker sounded further at night, he said. "The first few nights were scary, then it became the background noise of your life after a while," Reuters reported Monday, June 10.

Tharp, a public affairs official in 2015, Tharp said he had helped review messages broadcast by South Koreans, which are part of a joint command with US troops.

North Korea in some cases has delivered weapons through balloons and loudspeakers.

South Korea halted the broadcast under an agreement signed by the two Korean leaders in 2018 but tensions have risen since then as Pyongyang continues to develop its weapons.

North Korean troops have been seen cutting trees and building fences in DMZ in recent weeks.

Taylor said UNC did not assess the purpose of the effort was to allow for a "different" military buildup in the border zone, which was a violation of the ceasefire.

He noted that since North Korea declared unification with South Korea no longer a destination, the country has taken steps to "strengthen" the country's boundaries.