Kim Yo-jong issues statement calling for ”new response” to resumption of loudspeaker broadcasting for the first time in six years - South Korean media

In response to the "filthy balloons" sent by North Korea toward South Korea, the South Korean government has resumed loudspeaker propaganda broadcasts to North Korea for the first time in six years, and North Korea has announced a new response.
On the 9th, Kim Yo-jong, a vice director of the Workers' Party of North Korea, said in a statement by the Korean Central News Agency, "If South Korea continues to provoke with leaflet distribution and loudspeaker broadcasts across the border,
"If the North Korean government decides to withdraw from the border, South Korea will definitely witness our new response," Kim said. "In the early hours of the 8th, about 1,400 balloons were used to scatter 7.5 tons of paper waste across the border.
"If you look into it, you'll see that we just scattered scraps of paper and did not engage in any incitement of a political nature," he said. "Our actions continued throughout the 9th.
"We had planned to end it on that day, but the situation has changed," he said, adding, "We will take measures to allow propaganda broadcasts over loudspeakers to resume."
Vice Director Kim told the South Korean side, "If you resume your provocations through loudspeaker broadcasts,
"By making official this banditry, they are creating a new and dangerous environment," he said. "We strongly condemn South Korea's dirty and immature behavior," he added.
"Before long, the confusion of having to pick up tissues will become a daily occurrence in South Korea," he said.
As previously announced, on the 9th, the US resumed loudspeaker propaganda broadcasts to North Korea. Loudspeaker propaganda broadcasts are one of the psychological tactics that North Korea fears the most.
The South Korean military installed a significant number of its 40 fixed and mobile loudspeakers at the front on the same day, of which more than five were in the air.
The propaganda broadcast, "Voice of Freedom," was broadcast to North Korea using a high-powered loudspeaker, and included information on the development of South Korea and the state of human rights in North Korea.
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Vice-Minister Kim said, "Seoul must immediately stop any dangerous actions that could lead to further conflict.
"We strongly warn the South Korean people to stop and exercise self-restraint in their actions," the presidential office said. "The North Korean government's release of dirty balloons for the first time in eight days was an attempt to cause anxiety among the South Korean people and unrest in society.
"We will not tolerate any such attempt," he said, taking a firm stance, saying, "While the measures we take may be intolerable to the North Korean regime, they will bring light and hope to the military and people of North Korea."
The South Korean government has not stopped defector groups from distributing leaflets toward North Korea on the grounds of "freedom of expression," and North Korea's provocations using filthy balloons are expected to continue for the time being.
In addition, North Korea has threatened to take new measures if South Korea continues to distribute leaflets and broadcast propaganda using loudspeakers, so it has decided to hold talks with South Korea on the Northern Limit Line (
It has also been suggested that there may be provocations such as shooting near the NLL.