{"id":40787,"date":"2024-07-21T08:39:34","date_gmt":"2024-07-21T08:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=40787"},"modified":"2024-07-21T08:39:37","modified_gmt":"2024-07-21T08:39:37","slug":"south-korea-responds-to-norths-trash-balloons-with-loudspeaker-broadcasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=40787","title":{"rendered":"South Korea responds to North&#8217;s trash balloons with loudspeaker broadcasts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(Reuters)   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SEOUL, July 21  &#8211; North Korea on Sunday floated balloons carrying trash towards South Korea, South Korea&#8217;s military said, declaring it would respond with &#8220;full-scale&#8221; loudspeaker broadcasts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The South Korean military said the North&#8217;s actions raising tensions near the heavily armed border could have fatal consequences, adding the North Korean regime would be solely responsible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;As we warned several times, the military will carry out loudspeaker broadcasts in full scale and on all fronts starting 1 p.m. today,&#8221; the South&#8217;s Joint Chiefs of Staff said, calling the North&#8217;s launch of balloons vulgar and shameful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Activists and defectors in South Korea have for years sent their own balloons carrying propaganda leaflets and other items into North Korea, angering Pyongyang.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier this week, South Korea&#8217;s military decided to resume its round-the-clock&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/south-korea-conducts-loudspeaker-broadcasts-north-korea-2024-07-18\/\">loudspeaker broadcast campaign<\/a>&nbsp;targeting North Korea in response to what it called the despicable launch of balloons by Pyongyang carrying trash across the border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since May, North Korea has been floating thousands of balloons with bags of trash attached to them, which have become a new source of tension between the two Koreas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Blaring propaganda, world news and K-pop music, South Korea&#8217;s broadcasts are considered by military officials and activists as an effective form of psychological warfare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) SEOUL, July 21 &#8211; North Korea on Sunday floated balloons carrying trash towards South Korea, South Korea&#8217;s military said, declaring it would respond with &#8220;full-scale&#8221; loudspeaker broadcasts. The South Korean military said the North&#8217;s actions raising tensions near the heavily armed border could have fatal consequences, adding the North Korean regime would be solely responsible. &#8220;As we warned several times, the military will carry out loudspeaker broadcasts in full scale and on all fronts starting 1 p.m. today,&#8221; the South&#8217;s Joint Chiefs of Staff said, calling the North&#8217;s launch of balloons vulgar and shameful. Activists and defectors in South&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40788,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40789,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40787\/revisions\/40789"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}