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It said a failure to take down the speakers would spark ‘an all-out military action of justice to blow up all means for “anti-north psychological warfare” on the front lines’.

For years, banks of speakers positioned at more than a dozen points along the border with the North had blared out propaganda messages about the joys of life in South Korea.

North Korea on Saturday demanded that the South halt anti-North propaganda broadcasts via loudspeakers along the border or face military action, a day after it denied Seoul’s accusation that it planted landmines that wounded two South Korean soldiers.

The widow of late former South Korean President Kim Dae-jung left for North Korea under tight security Wednesday, after an anti-Pyongyang group had threatened to blow up her plane.