North Korea Renews Threat of Anti-South Loudspeakers; Kim Yo-jong Says "New Countermeasures on Standby"

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Kim Yo-jong, a vice department director of North Korea's Workers' Party, has stated that anti-South loudspeakers will be placed on operational standby within days. She also claimed that new countermeasures have already been deployed and are on mission standby along the Military Demarcation Line.

Choi Jae-yeong reports.

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North Korea's Workers' Party Vice Department Director Kim Yo-jong threatened today (October 22) through the Korean Central News Agency, saying that the so-called border fortification project is "not a provocation, but a legitimate response," adding, "Whether intentional or unintentional, if you make even a 'mistake,' you must be prepared for everything at that moment."

She then warned that preparations to operate the anti-South loudspeakers are imminent.

Kim claimed, "New countermeasures will enter mission standby posture along the entire border," and "anti-South loudspeakers will also enter standby status within a few days."

Following her statement yesterday warning that anti-South loudspeakers would be put into operation within this month, she specified the preparation timeline just a day later.

Kim also made it clear that North Korea will continue the so-called border fortification project.

She claimed, "The border permanent fortification project will continue, and once the border is fortified, the risk of military clashes will be significantly lowered."

Kim also harshly criticized Democratic Party Lawmaker Kim Byung-joo, who serves as special advisor on defense policy to the presidential office.

After Lawmaker Kim criticized Vice Director Kim on social media for announcing plans to operate anti-South loudspeakers, calling it "shameless, thick-skinned audacity of shifting the blame," she did not hold back crude remarks, saying, "A small fry who does not even know the meaning of the phrase 'the guilty party turning on the victim' is chattering irresponsibly."

After revealing yesterday that Vice Director Kim Yo-jong and Pak Jong-chon, an adviser to the Ministry of National Defence and the North's top-ranking military official, inspected the site of the 'southern border fortification project,' North Korea is ratcheting up pressure by mentioning the resumption of anti-South loudspeaker broadcasts for two consecutive days.

(Video by Choi Jin-hwa)
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