South Korea resumes anti-North broadcasts after H-bomb test

“We’re putting out critical messages about Kim Jong-un’s regime and its fourth nuclear test, saying North Korea’s nuclear weapons development is putting its people in more hard times economically”, a military official said.

South Korea’s military has raised its cybersecurity alert level as tensions rise with neighbor North Korea following Pyongyang’s claim that it successfully tested a hydrogen bomb, Reuters reported.

The North broadcasts were not clearly audible from the South and appeared meant to drown out those from the South, Yonhap said, citing a South Korean official.

The ministry also said there had been no government decision on what North Korea needed to do to end the propaganda broadcasts. The tactic dates back to the 1950-53 Korean War.

The upper house resolution demanded that North Korea abandon all its nuclear programs, accept inspection by the International Atomic Energy Agency and take steps to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula.

North Korea has said it needs a strong nuclear deterrent to keep the United States from invading.

U.S. Republicans and Democrats in the House of Representatives could join forces in a rare display of unity to tighten sanctions on North Korea.

Spokeswoman Hua Chunying told a routine press briefing that Foreign Minister Wang Yi had stated China’s position to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in a phone conversation on Thursday. The North’s state media has yet to mention Kim’s birthday or South Korea’s loudspeaker campaign.

With its secrecy and seclusion, us-against-the-world perspective and the fact it doesn’t play by traditional rules, North Korea was already unpredictable before it began experimenting with nuclear weapons and missile technology.

But South Korea sees K-pop and propaganda as quick ways to show its displeasure – and a guaranteed irritant to the North’s sensitive and proud leadership.

Skepticism from worldwide experts about North Korea’s claim to have conducted its first H-bomb test isn’t dampening spirits in Pyongyang.

“Not mentioning a peace treaty is a strategic mistake”.

During a visit to North Korea two years ago, former National Basketball Association star Dennis Rodman sang “Happy Birthday” to Kim.

It affects clients, potential buyers and service providers to 120 South Korean businesses in the North Korean border city.

The United States overestimates China’s economic influence on the North, said a second academic at Yanbian University, who looks at relations between China and North Korea. North Korea’s declaration that it had tested a hydrogen bomb fo…

Pressure is growing on China to do more. But the key will be China.

Kerry, for his part, took issue with those contentions, emphatically maintaining that, “North Korea has never been left unattended to”.

The data indicates Wednesday’s test used an “identical design”, the analyst said.