Seoul announced on Monday, September 1, the interruption of its propaganda radio programs for North Koreans on Monday, September 1, the last measure to re -connect with your neighbor with a nuclear weapon.
This frequency, the voice of freedom, began to issue in 1962. Its content was produced by the Ministry of Defense of South Korea. Its dissemination has been suspended several times according to relations between the two countries, which opposed between 1950 and 1953 during a war that did not lead a peace treaty between them.
The Voice of Freedom Broadcast K-Pop Information and Music in North Korea, a country that closely controls its population to any external content. This suspension is “as part of the measures to reduce military tensions with the north,” said Defense Ministry Lee Kyung-Ho to the press on Monday.
SALLERY MEASURES
The station had stopped broadcasting in 2004 during a period of approach between the two countries, before resuming its transmission in 2010 following a torpedo attack led by Pyongyang against a South Korean war ship, Cheonan, who killed 46 sailors.
The head of state, Lee Jae-Myung, who came to power in June, has already dedicated himself to appeasement measures against Pyongyang, such as the interruption of propaganda by speakers along the border between French.
But North Korea has said that he was not interested in improving his relations with Seoul. She described Lee Jae-Myung as “hypocritical” after statements on her side for a denuclearization of the Korean peninsula during a visit to the United States, a key ally of South Korea.
President Lee “said he wanted to restore relations” with North Korea, but revealed “his true nature as obsessed with confrontation,” said the official Pyongyang news agency on Wednesday, saying that the north would not abandon nuclear weapons.
Source: BFM TV
