South Korea halts border propaganda broadcasts, Trump cautious on North’s crisis

The inter-Korean talks and a planned meeting between Kim and Trump in the coming weeks, have raised hopes of an easing in tensions that reached a crescendo last year amid a flurry of North Korean missile tests and its largest nuclear test.

By: Reuters | Seoul/washington |Published: April 23, 2018 4:31 PM

SEOUL - South Korea halted a major cross-border publicity in North Korea on Monday, ahead of the first inter-Korean summit in a decade, because US President Donald Trump warned of a nuclear crisis on the Korean Peninsula.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and South Korean President Moon Gee in the final phase of preparations for the North and South Korea summit in the border village of Panamong on Friday.
"We hope this decision will lead both Koreas to stop mutual criticism and propaganda against each other and also contribute in creating peace and a new beginning,” the South Korean defence ministry said about the decision to halt the broadcasts.

His promotion to the North Korean border is a loudspeaker, but a defense official said he could not verify whether the answer had stopped broadcasting. In February, after the opening ceremony of the North Korean Olympic Games in North Korea, the North reduced its border propaganda. Department of Defense stopped midnight, the Department of Defense said that without Kim Moon's summit, they will start again or not?

This is the first time in the South Korean radio, which includes criticism of the news, South Korean pop music and North Korean rule, has stopped. After North Korea's fourth nuclear test, the broadcast will be launched in January 2015. Pyongyang has conducted two more nuclear tests since then.

In the coming weeks, the inter-regional dialogue between Kim and Trump and a tripartite meeting between the North Korean missile trials and the biggest nuclear test have given hope to reduce tensions in one city last year.

North Korea vowed on Saturday to halt nuclear and missile tests and said it was breaking the site of its nuclear tests for economic development and peace. At first, after welcoming the statement, Trump saw another warning on Sunday.

"We'll go a long way to end North Korea, and maybe things will go, and maybe they will not - they'll tell us only in time," Trump said on Twitter. However, South Korean companies have grown in touch with North Korea after the announcement of Pyongyang over the weekend. The people and shares of Xinwan, who operated factories in the North Korean North Korean industrial zone near the Demitrified area, improved by 8 percent and 15 percent, respectively.

CAUTION

North Korea's main ally also welcomed China's announcement of North Korea, but the state-run media was hit on Monday with cautionary remarks. China's official daily China Daily said the pledges informed the message that Kim would sit in the talks as the leader of legitimate nuclear energy.

"It is likely that the actual nuclear disarmament issue will be difficult because such weapons are important to protect Pyongyang, if they have to leave, the safety of iron will be required."

The Global Times, People's Daily, said all sides should "follow up on this difficult situation" and pursue peace and maize efforts. "Washington should not stop North Korea's nuclear and ballistic missile tests as a result of its extreme pressure," Global Times wrote. "He should be responsible for many factors, one of which Pyongyang was able to acquire some advanced nuclear techniques and successfully launched an intercontinental ballistic missile at a distance of more than 10,000 kilometers."