South Korea To Restart Propaganda Loudspeakers Along Border

jones_supa writes: South Korea has said that it will resume anti-Pyongyang loudspeaker broadcasts this week along the heavily fortified border with North Korea in retaliation of Pyongyang's claimed hydrogen bomb test. The broadcasts will resume at noon on Friday, told Cho Tae-yong, deputy chief of the presidential office of national security. Cho added that South Korean troops maintain combat readiness and will sternly retaliate against North Korea if Pyongyang follows with a provocation. In August, South resumed the broadcasts for the first time in 11 years in retaliation for the North's land-mine attack that maimed two South Korean soldiers. The two sides later held days of intensive high-level talks and produced a deal in which South agreed to stop propaganda broadcasts unless an abnormal situation occurs. Which now did.

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Ineffective?

[Anonymous Coward]

How effective are these propaganda broadcasts, really?

If you grew up thinking the sky way red, nothing coming out of a loudspeaker (run by the enemy, no less) will convince you otherwise.

Re:Ineffective?

[Anubis IV]

My wife was telling me about a story she read regarding a North Korean defector who fled across the border to China and then eventually made it to the West. The thing that convinced him he needed to leave? A soldier from the other side of the DMZ accidentally dropped nail clippers and didn't care enough to come back and get them later. When he realized that something as "incredible" as nail clippers were basically worthless to the other side's soldiers, he knew he had been lied to about how things were outside of his country.

Take it with the requisite grain of salt, but it's an interesting anecdote, nonetheless.

Re:Ineffective?

[Anonymous Coward]

It's not that fun music is an acquired taste, it's that grumpy people don't like having fun.

I think it comes from spending a lifetime performing grueling work under an oppressive regime (whether it be the USSR or a Baptist church) they don't want to believe that all of that sacrifice was for nothing but to amuse some dictator, so they will believe that fun is wrong.

Also, rock and fun upbeat pop music only overlap a *tiny* bit.

Re: it was an inevitable progression, to say the l

[Anonymous Coward]

A few tracks on Biebers album that I've heard are actually good, get over yourself.

Re:If they use that nuke Pyongyang will be gone in

[Talderas]

Or you could know your history and remember why the Korean war ended the way it did.

Ah right, you mean how MacArthur advanced further into North Korea than Truman authorized which prompted a Chinese counterattack turning what was a victory into a retreat that lead to the eventual borders between North and South Korea.