South Korea begins dismantling anti-North Korea propaganda speakers

Netizens said the singer humiliated himself by bowing to Kim Jong-un, the same gesture he did to President Moon’s wife Kim Jong Sook. Its credit should rightly go to the US President who had tightened the screws on North Korea through sanctions which affected the country’s economy. He requested anonymity, citing department rules.

The speakers had been broadcasting on a regular basis since January 2016, they were turned back on as a response to Pyongyang’s fourth nuclear test.

As of Tuesday, South Korea’s military has begun to dismantle loudspeakers, surreptitiously placed along its border with North Korea, which for years had blasted anti-Pyongyang propaganda and K-pop music into its former enemy’s homeland. The North broadcast anti-South messages and praises of its own political system.

“The United States and North Korea first need agree what denuclearization means”. There were no reports of casualties. They vowed to pursue denuclearisation and a peace treaty to formally end the 1950-53 Korean War, setting the mood for Kim’s much-anticipated face-to-face encounter with US President Donald Trump. While the summit was filled with public diplomacy and pageantry “aimed at South Koreans fearful of a USA attack on North Korea”, it lacked any meaningful commitment to denuclearization from North Korea.

Trump surprised his advisers and others in March by quickly agreeing to meet with Kim after receiving a briefing from a South Korean delegation that had met with the North’s leader.

The sharp turn in North Korea’s trajectory, which for decades has threatened to attack the United States and its allies in the region, South Korea and Japan, with nuclear weapons, is a major win for global peace.

During a telephone call with U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday, Moon said he wants the U.N.to observe the closure of the Punggy-ri test site.

Moon’s office said he will brief Abe and Li about the results of his summit with Kim.

Minister Cho Myoung-gyon made the remarks during talks with Lee Jeong-mi, the chief of the minor Justice Party, while noting the proposal is separate from the agreement in the inter-Korean declaration to build a joint liaison office in the North’s border city of Kaesong. Kim denied such views, saying the site has two underground tunnels to be used for new tests. It is the third time Japan has hosted the meeting, the Foreign Ministry said.

“In late August, just three weeks later, Kim Jong-un’s fired an intermediate-range ballistic missile over Japan”.

There’s a growing chorus supporters calling for President Donald Trump to win the Nobel Prize for peace, almost nine years after former President Barack Obama won the award, The Washington Post reports.