2024-07-21 17:12:17
After 39 days of 10-hour all-night broadcasts
The second day of implementation on all fronts yesterday afternoon
In response to North Korea’s eighth round of balloon scattering, the military authorities have resumed loudspeaker broadcasts toward the North. While the loudspeaker broadcasts that were suddenly resumed in response to the third round of balloon scattering last month were a “taste” that lasted about two hours, this time, broadcasts were conducted for 10 hours starting from the evening of the 18th, immediately after the balloons were launched, until the early morning of the 19th. The military authorities announced that they would broadcast again on the afternoon of the 19th, when North Korea did not launch any balloons, and that they would continue broadcasting every day for the time being until North Korea announces that it will stop sending balloons.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff announced on this day, “As we have given stern warnings several times, our military conducted loudspeaker broadcasts in the areas where the sewage balloons floated from the evening of the previous day (the 18th) to the early morning of this day.” The broadcasts began at 6 PM the previous day, immediately after the balloons crossed the Military Demarcation Line (MDL), and continued until 4 AM the same day, when the balloons were finally floated. The loudspeaker broadcasts, which resumed on the 9th of last month after six years, were conducted the day after the sewage balloons floated, and the broadcast time was short at two hours, but compared to this, the response speed has noticeably accelerated and the intensity has greatly increased.
In particular, the broadcast that resumed after 39 days was reportedly focused on the origin of the balloons. The point where North Korea floated the balloons for two days was reported to be a peninsula region located tens of kilometers away from Ganghwa Island in Incheon, South Hwanghae Province. Accordingly, the military authorities broadcasted using several fixed loudspeakers installed in the western front region, including Ganghwa Island, which is close to the origin.
The military authorities turned off the loudspeaker broadcast at 4 AM that day. Some speculated that the military authorities would turn the loudspeakers back on if North Korea refloated the balloons, but contrary to expectations, the military turned the broadcasts back on at 4 PM, 12 hours later. The broadcasts continued even though North Korea did not float the balloons. The number of loudspeakers mobilized for the broadcasts that began at 4 PM was similar, but the broadcast area expanded to the entire front line, including the western, central, and eastern regions. However, the broadcast time was shorter than the previous day, at about 6 hours. A government official said, “Even during the 10-hour broadcast that day until dawn, North Korea showed signs of preparing to float the balloons, so we broadcasted again that afternoon,” and “We plan to broadcast in different regions every morning and evening until North Korea announces that it will stop releasing balloons.”
Attention was also focused on the reason why broadcasts were not resumed during the 4th to 7th balloon launches, but were resumed in response to the 8th launch, and why broadcasts were decided to be conducted every day. A Joint Chiefs of Staff official said, “We gave North Korea a period of self-reflection, but there was no change in attitude, so we resumed broadcasts.”
Meanwhile, the Joint Chiefs of Staff said that North Korea had floated around 200 balloons over the past two days, and around 40 of them fell into southern regions, including northern Gyeonggi Province. Most of the contents were paper.
Reporter Son Hyo-joo [email protected]
Reporter Lim Jae-hyeok [email protected]
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2024-07-21 17:12:17