South Korea wants to relax the tensions with its neighbors in North Korea. It is demonstrated by the symbolic decision to dismantle the giant speakers he had installed a few months ago and that served for an unusual purpose: “bombard” North Korea with K-Pop at full volume. Will that gesture of something serve?
The Korean conflict. The Korean division that the US and Russia defined after World War II caused the beginning of the Korean conflict, which is still in force since 1948, when both countries created separate governments. That division ended up causing the war of Korea (1950-1953) in which both countries losing and unleashed a definitive division between North Korea and South Korea. Since then, above all, tension. A lot of tension.
Constant reprisals. The relationship between the two countries began to become more problematic when last summer South Korea received a rain of balloons loaded with garbage. This country did not remain still, and responded by sending propaganda drones that in turn generated two very different reprisals.
From noise to K-Pop. First, North Korea described its neighbor as a “hostile state” in its constitution. And second, “bombing” to South Korea with unbearable noises for 24 hours in border areas. Although these types of measures seem unusual, they are actually a kind of psychological attack that is being used since the aforementioned Korean war. Be that as it may, South Korea responded again with a creative variant: he installed giant speakers on his border with North Korea and began to put K-pop songs at full volume.
White flag. But in June, in a sudden turn of events, South Korea decided to turn off the propaganda speakers that transmitted both those songs and ideological news. The decision was taken by the new South Korean president, Lee Jae-Myung, who since his inauguration has shown a much more appeaser profile than his predecessor, a battalist Yoon Suk Yeol who had no problem in the voltage of rising level in the Korean conflict.
North Korea adds to the gesture. In his first public speech, Lee made it clear that he intended to initiate a dialogue with his archNEENEMY, North Korea, to bring peace to the Korean Peninsula. Turning off the speakers was also a gesture that – sortingly – had an immediate response: North Korea also stopped broadcasting strident noises in the border speakers that he had launched months ago. The activists of both countries, yes, maintained the tension. While the South sent balloons loaded with critical pamphlets to Pyongyang, from the north they replied with balloons full of plillas and garbage. President Lee has already asked to stop entertaining the tension with these propaganda shipments.
Disassembling the speakers. After that “Sound truce”, South Korea has taken a new step, and the giant speakers that were installed to broadcast K-Pop music at full volume have begun to disassemble. Lee Kyung-Ho, spokesman for the South Korean Ministry of Defense, explained that this was a “practical measure that can help soften interorean tensions without affecting military preparatory.”
North Korea continues in his thirteen. Despite this gesture, in Pyongyang they do not seem intention to bring positions. Kim Yo Jong, sister of the Korean leader, said last week that “the blind trust” of Seoul in his alliance with the US made for North Korea the new administration was not different from that of his predecessor. North Korea seems to be especially concerned with strengthening his relationship with Russia, with which he is collaborating in the Ukraine War, and is not in a hurry to soften relations with South Korea.
And South Korea, for his perhaps, warns. Although the measure is a clear symbol of Lee’s intention to relax the tension, the South Korean president stressed that “the army maintains a constant high level of preparation.” Or what is the same: they pray for the best, but they are prepared for the worst.
Restore trust. The South Korean Unification Minister Chung Dong-Young explained that there were no similar movements on the other side of the border, but for them this was “the right step.” In addition, he added, “ultimately, the key issue between the two Koreas at this time is to restore confidence, which has been completely lost. I consider that this is a step towards reconstruction of that trust.
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