{"id":3107,"date":"2026-10-22T12:03:46","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T07:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3107"},"modified":"2026-10-22T12:03:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T07:03:46","slug":"north-koreas-to-ready-border-loudspeakers-kim-yo-jong-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3107","title":{"rendered":"North Korea’s to ready border loudspeakers, Kim Yo Jong warns"},"content":{"rendered":"
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North Korea will place anti-South Korea loudspeakers \u200con standby along the entire border within days and has put unspecified new countermeasures on alert, Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of North Korea\u2019s leader, said on Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The statement came with a warning to Seoul of \u201cthe most horrible and distressing situation\u201d if South Korea continued what Pyongyang calls interference in the North\u2019s internal affairs.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday evening, after she \u200bvisited fortification sites with senior military officials, Kim said North Korea would activate<\/a> anti-South Korea loudspeakers across the border by the end of October.<\/p>\n

She \u200bsaid North Korean tactical units had taken up new positions and accused South Korean troops of conducting warning broadcasts and \u2060warning shots at multiple locations near the border.<\/p>\n

South Korea said warning shots had been fired as \u201clegitimate and defensive measures\u201d.<\/p>\n

Kim warned that North Korean troops \u200bwould \u201cmercilessly eliminate\u201d South Korean forces if warning fire resulted in harm to North Korean territory or personnel.<\/p>\n

South Korea\u2019s military and Unification Ministry urged North Korea to \u200breturn to talks to resolve differences. The military said Kim\u2019s statements showed that measures taken with the UN Command to strengthen control in the demilitarised zone were having an effect.<\/p>\n

The defence ministry told a news briefing that Seoul would take \u201cproportionate measures\u201d if North Korea acted on its threats, although no decision had been made.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Loudspeaker threat adds pressure on Seoul<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The fresh \u200bthreats from Pyongyang are a blow to South Korean President Lee Jae Myung\u2019s efforts to ease inter-Korean hostility, and raise tensions along the heavily fortified \u200bfrontier to their highest level since he took office in June last year.<\/p>\n

Both North and South Korea have historically used loudspeakers to broadcast propaganda across the border, with South \u200cKorean broadcasts \u2060featuring K-pop music and news that have long irked Pyongyang and prompted tit-for-tat responses.<\/p>\n

The two Koreas are separated by a demilitarised zone established after the 1950-53 Korean War ended in an armistice.<\/p>\n

North Korea has been reinforcing its side of the DMZ with mines, barriers and fencing since 2024 as it seeks to establish what it calls a permanent border with South Korea.<\/p>\n

South Korea says North Korean mines planted as part of its fortification activity in the DMZ caused a \u200bblast last month that seriously wounded two \u200bsoldiers.<\/p>\n

North Korea denies responsibility, \u2060calling the incident a South Korean fabrication.<\/p>\n

Seoul\u2019s Foreign Ministry on Thursday said it would send a letter to the UN Security Council saying the blast was caused by mines planted by North Korea and constituted a violation of the \u200bKorean War armistice.<\/p>\n

The letter will demand an apology from Pyongyang and urge dialogue to prevent escalation, a ministry \u200bspokesperson told a \u2060briefing.<\/p>\n

Since taking office, Lee has pursued a policy of diplomatic engagement and tension reduction with North Korea despite Pyongyang\u2019s refusal to resume dialogue and its designation of South Korea as a hostile state.<\/p>\n

His administration halted South Korean loudspeaker broadcasts and dismantled<\/a> fixed border loudspeakers last year, steps Seoul described as key confidence-building measures, and after which \u2060North Korea \u200bsuspended its own broadcasts toward the South.<\/p>\n

Lim Eul-chul, a professor at Seoul\u2019s Kyungnam University, said Kim\u2019s \u200blatest warnings did not necessarily mean the loudspeakers would be immediately activated.<\/p>\n

But they presented Lee\u2019s administration with an \u201cenormous dilemma\u201d, he said, as it faced a choice between maintaining its policy of peaceful \u200bengagement and containing aggressive North Korean military activity along the border.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

North Korea will place anti-South Korea loudspeakers \u200con standby along the entire border within days and has put unspecified new countermeasures on alert, Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of North Korea\u2019s leader, said on Thursday. The statement came with a warning to Seoul of \u201cthe most horrible and distressing situation\u201d if South Korea continued what Pyongyang calls interference in the North\u2019s internal affairs. On Wednesday evening, after she \u200bvisited fortification sites with senior military officials, Kim said North Korea would activate anti-South Korea loudspeakers across the border by the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}