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South Korea halts propaganda broadcasts along border with rival North in a move to ease tensions

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South Korea halts propaganda broadcasts along border with rival North in a move to ease tensions.

New liberal government's first concrete step toward easing tensions between the war-divided rivals.

South resumed daily loudspeaker broadcasts in June last year following a yearslong pause.

North Korea , which is extremely sensitive to any outside criticism of its authoritarian leadership, didn’t immediately comment on the move.

North Korea has acquired a range of missiles that could potentially target rivals in Asia and the U.S. mainland.

Kim declared in January 2024 that he was abandoning the long-standing goals of a peaceful unification with the South .

He instructed the rewriting of the North ’s constitution to cement the South as a permanent “principal enemy”.