{"id":577633,"date":"2010-05-25T05:35:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T09:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/north-korea-threatens-to-destroy-loudspeakers-aimed-at-the-dmz-2010-5"},"modified":"2010-05-25T05:35:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T09:35:00","slug":"the-next-stage-of-brinkmanship-north-korea-threatens-to-destroy-loudspeakers-aimed-at-the-dmz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/577633","title":{"rendered":"The Next Stage Of Brinkmanship: North Korea Threatens To Destroy Loudspeakers Aimed At The DMZ"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Next in Korean brinkmanship: a dispute over propaganda loudspeakers aimed at the DMZ.<\/p>\n

Lee Myung-bak’s retaliation package<\/a> includes a resumption of “psychological warfare”:<\/p>\n

JoongAng Daily<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The propaganda messages – entitled “The Sound of Freedom” – will be played from dozens of loudspeakers to be set up near the military demarcation line, and work to install the speakers will begin this month.<\/p>\n

South Korean military officials say the messages can be heard up to 24 kilometers (15 miles) into North Korea in the quiet of the night.<\/p>\n

A North Korean military officer threatened to fire on any equipment used to deliver an anti-North Korean message, according to JoongAng Daily<\/a>. To which South Korea Defense Minister Kim Tay-young said there would be “no other choice than to strike back immediately.”<\/p>\n

Most Koreans do not want war. There are no jingoistic editorials today in Chosun Ilbo<\/a> — a conservative newspaper that was outspoken during the Cheonan investigation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Read more: What You Need To Know About The South Korean Economy<\/a><\/h3>\n

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Next in Korean brinkmanship: a dispute over propaganda loudspeakers aimed at the DMZ. Lee Myung-bak’s retaliation package includes a resumption of “psychological warfare”: JoongAng Daily: The propaganda messages – entitled “The Sound of Freedom” – will be played from dozens of loudspeakers to be set up near the military demarcation line, and work to install […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-577633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}