"Another Unpleasant Sound"... 'Ghost Sounds' Echo Through Border Regions in the Morning

▲ Anti-South loudspeakers installed in North Korea's border region, viewed from Songhae-myeon, Ganghwa-gun, Incheon

It was confirmed that North Korea conducted test broadcasts through its anti-South loudspeakers on the morning of October 29.

According to residents in the border areas of Paju, Gyeonggi Province, "North Korea began transmitting anti-South broadcasts from 6 a.m.," and added, "The sound is not loud, but we can hear broadcasting noises since the morning."

A resident of Daeseong-dong Village, the only civilian residential settlement inside the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), reported the test broadcast, saying, "At 6:30 a.m., we briefly heard music, followed faintly by what sounded like ghost noises."

Park, a resident living in Tongilchon, Paju, stated, "While harvesting rice in the morning, I heard anti-South broadcast sounds from the North, including ghost noises and animal cries."

The resident continued, "The sound wasn't loud, but it was that unpleasant noise the North used to put out a few years ago. Even in the past, when the North carried out anti-South broadcasts, it started out quiet before the volume suddenly increased, causing residents to suffer."

It is known that North Korea's anti-South broadcasts on this day lasted for about 4 to 5 hours.

Previously on October 22, Kim Yo-jong, deputy department director of the Workers' Party of Korea, threatened that preparations to resume anti-South loudspeaker broadcasts would be completed within this month.

(Photo: Yonhap News)

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