North Korea Sets Up Broadcasts To Counter South’s Anti-Pyongyang Campaign

Seoul’s military authorities said the North stepped up its vigilance posture along the border by increasing its artillery assets at its frontline units close to South Korea’s loudspeakers.

Mr. Kim earlier called the explosion “a self-defensive step” meant to protect the region “from the danger of nuclear war caused by the U.S.-led imperialists”, a separate KCNA dispatch said.

Also, in the past China has frequently urged that the nuclear problem on the Korean Peninsula be solved through “peaceful conversation and negotiation”.

 South Korean special envoy Hwang Joon-kook will meet his Japanese and United States counterparts in Seoul on Wednesday to hold “in-depth talks” on possible diplomatic responses to the North’s nuclear weapon test, its first since 2013 and fourth overall.

Such is the importance of ideology in the reclusive North that the previous round of inter-Korean psychological warfare pressured Pyongyang into last August’s landmark cooperation deal – albeit not before an exchange of fire.

As tensions heighten between the USA and North Korea, Guam is playing a major role to help maintain stability and security in the region.

The U.S. military flew a B-52 bomber over South Korea on Sunday, in a Cold War-style show of force that was met with concern by human rights campaigners.

The news from North Korea reignited fears in the worldwide community over Pyongyang’s efforts to build a warhead small enough to be mounted on a missile and capable of reaching the shores of the mainland US.

“We hope that our fellow Koreans in the North will be able to live in a society that doesn’t invade individual lives as soon as possible”, a female presenter said in parts of the broadcast that officials revealed to South Korean media.

Meanwhile, the South’s unification ministry announced that it would restrict to a minimum the number of its citizens at the inter-Korean Kaesong Industrial Complex.

Criticism of South Korean president Park Geun-hye can also be heard among the messages, according to sources for the Korean news outlet.

In the aftermath of the test, South Korea beefed up its defensive positions near sites where it set up loudspeakers blaring messages critical of North Korea along with K-pop music.

Following these tests, the United Nations Security Council imposed various sanctions on Pyongyang.

The chairman of South Korea’s joint chiefs of staff, Lee Sun-jin, said North Korea was likely to carry out further sudden provocations.

South Korea and Japan also used their shared military hotline for the first time in the aftermath of North Korea’s nuclear test. The two military allies of the United States have been working to overcome strained bilateral relations over Japan’s conduct during World War II to better deal with the increasing nuclear threat they both face from North Korea.