South Korea Trains for Loudspeaker Broadcasts to North Korea

The South Korean military said that they have recently conducted training for "immediate" implementation of loudspeaker broadcasting to North Korea.

The video provided by the military showed trucks carrying loudspeakers to the training area and the soldiers assembling and installing the loudspeakers, and finally checking broadcast signals.

The military said it was the first such training since 2018, but didn’t disclose the date and location of the training.

The South Korean presidential office earlier announced that it will begin loudspeaker broadcasts directed at North Korea that will be "unbearable" for the Kim Jong Un regime, its National Security Council said, after Pyongyang resumed sending balloons carrying trash across the border.

The South’s security council met, after dozens of balloons with trash attached were found in Seoul and in areas near the border earlier in the day and overnight.

South Korea has warned it would take "unendurable" measures against the North for sending the trash balloons, which could include blaring propaganda broadcasts from huge loudspeakers set up at the border directed at the North.

Meanwhile Kim Yo Jong, the influential sister of the North Korean leader, warned of a new response against South Korea if the South kept on loudspeaker broadcasts and scattering leaflets amid simmering tensions, state media said.

"If the ROK simultaneously carries out the leaflet scattering and loudspeaker broadcasting provocation over the border, it will undoubtedly witness the new counteraction of the DPRK," Kim Yo Jong said in a statement carried by state news agency KCNA, using the official names of South and North Korea.