South Korea resumed propaganda broadcasts into North Korea in response to a deadly torpedo attack that sank a South Korean warship, officials said Tuesday, amid a report that North Korea’s leader ordered troops to be ready for combat.
Renewing psychological warfare operations were among measures that South Korea announced Monday to punish Pyongyang for the March sinking of a navy warship that left 46 sailors dead.
The United States has thrown its full support behind South Korea’s moves to retaliate, which include slashing trade with the North and taking it to the U.N. Security Council.
China — North Korea’s main ally and aid provider — has so far, however, done little but urge calm on all sides. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is in Beijing conferring with officials on a coordinated response. China’s top nuclear envoy, meanwhile, huddled with South Korean officials in Seoul.
South Korea’s military resumed radio broadcasts airing Western music, news and comparisons between the South and North Korean political and economic situations late Monday, according to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The military also planned to launch propaganda leaflets Tuesday to inform North Koreans about the ship sinking.
In coming weeks, South Korea will also install dozens of propaganda loudspeakers and towering electronic billboards along the heavily armed land border between the two Koreas to send messages enticing communist soldiers to defect to the South.
via The Associated Press: Seoul resumes psychological warfare with Pyongyang.
