North Korea to Ready Loudspeakers Along Border in Days — SkimNews
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- Kim Yo Jong said in a second statement within hours that new countermeasures would go on alert along the entire southern border and anti-South Korea loudspeakers would be on standby within days.
- Kim Yo Jong said Wednesday that the loudspeakers would be activated by the end of October after she visited southern-border fortifications with senior military officials, and that fortification would continue.
- South Korea said North Korean mines caused a blast last month that seriously injured two soldiers; North Korea denied responsibility and called the claim a fabrication.
- Lee Jae Myung’s special adviser on defence policy accused North Korea of planting the mines and told it not to escalate tensions through loudspeaker broadcasts, which Kim cited as the trigger for her response.
- Lim Eul-chul said Kim’s warnings do not necessarily mean activation, but present Lee’s administration with an “enormous dilemma” between peaceful engagement and containing North Korean military activity.
Why it matters: Lee Jae Myung’s signature gains from easing inter-Korean tensions are now tied to a choice between continued engagement and containing North Korean military activity. A blast that South Korea attributes to North Korean mines injured two soldiers, giving Kim Yo Jong’s response a concrete origin while standby need not mean activation.
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