Kim Yo-jong: "Southern Border Chilling... Reviewing Resumption of Loudspeaker Broadcasts Toward South"

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North Korea's Kim Yo-jong has claimed that the situation along the so-called southern border—the Military Demarcation Line—is extremely unstable. Taking issue with the South Korean military issuing warning broadcasts and firing warning shots at North Korean soldiers crossing the Military Demarcation Line, she also stated that the North is reviewing the resumption of loudspeaker broadcasts toward South Korea.

Reporter Kim Ayeong reports.

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Kim Yo-jong, a vice department director of North Korea's Workers' Party of Korea, labeled the South Korean military "military gangsters" and stated that a chilling atmosphere is being created along what the North terms the southern border line, or the Military Demarcation Line.

Kim claimed that the South Korean military found fault with North Korean soldiers mobilized for border blockade construction, accusing them of "crossing the line," and conducted warning loudspeaker broadcasts 2,870 times and fired warning shots 201 times from August 1 to October 17.

The South Korean military has responded by first issuing warning broadcasts and then firing warning shots whenever North Korean troops cross the Military Demarcation Line in the process of "border fortification" work, which includes laying landmines and erecting barbed-wire fences along the border area.

Kim specifically claimed that the warning broadcasts were frequent in areas under the Army II Corps' 7th and 15th Infantry Divisions, while warning shots took place in areas under the III Corps' 21st Infantry Division.

She further argued that this situation demonstrates that the Lee Jae-myung administration's "anti-republic confrontation maneuvers" far surpass those of the Yoon Suk Yeol administration, which explicitly promoted anti-communism, while threatening physical follow-up measures.

As examples of such measures, she cited the reinforced deployment of tactical strike assets along the southern border line and reviewing the resumption of loudspeaker broadcasts toward South Korea.

This marks the first time North Korea has issued threats specifically mentioning follow-up actions since a landmine explosion incident occurred in the Demilitarized Zone on September 21.

(Video by Wi Won-yang)
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