”Mr. President, please stop the noises coming from North Korea”... Letter written by a South Korean elementary school student

"From 11pm to 6am I hear gunfire, cannons being carried, ghostly voices and other strange sounds I can't put into words. I'm so scared and angry, I can't put into words how painful it is.
My son and daughter, who go to elementary school, cry in their sleep, and I have to take sleeping pills. I don't want compensation. All I want is to get back to my normal life before it breaks down." (Ka
Ms. Ahn Mi-hee (37 years old), who is raising two children in the third and first grades of elementary school in Songhae-myeon, Ganghwa Island, has been in the spotlight for four months after North Korea began broadcasting through loudspeakers to South Korea in late July.
However, there are some residents whose daily lives have been disrupted. These are the residents of Songhae-myeon, Yangsa-myeon, and Gyodong-myeon in Ganghwa County, which is about 2 kilometers from North Korea. The 4,600 residents hear the sound of the blast day and night.
The loudspeaker broadcasts are causing me indescribable pain. I hear strange sounds coming from the loudspeakers, the voices of ghosts, the cries of animals such as foxes, wild dogs, and crows, and the sound of rubbing iron blocks.
The constant, excessive noise is harming not only people but also livestock, and there are calls for measures to be taken.
The loudspeaker broadcasting was resumed this year after North Korea responded to the distribution of anti-North Korea leaflets by a group of defectors in South Korea by distributing garbage balloons.
North Korea has also started broadcasting through loudspeakers again. Ahn, who suffers from the terrible noise, also attended the parliamentary audit by the National Assembly's Defense Committee as a witness. At the time, Ahn said, "The noise from the broadcasts has destroyed my daily life.
My daughter has mouth ulcers and my son can't sleep until 3 a.m., yet they do nothing," she said, kneeling in front of government officials and crying as she pleaded for action.
In response, Kim Seon Ho, Vice Minister of National Defense, said, "We are working on a plan that will allow local residents to feel the effects of the situation as soon as possible," and "As local residents have said,
"We will consider sending sound-related experts to the site and take measures," he said. Incheon City will also immediately use a specialist agency to accurately measure the intensity and scale of noise damage and improve the residents' understanding.
The government announced that it would develop health support programs and other initiatives. However, residents have expressed dissatisfaction, saying, "There has been no (direct) movement to resolve the issue yet."
Experts are calling for a multifaceted solution, including economic compensation, to be quickly offered to residents suffering along the inter-Korean border.
Professor Choi Gye-il of the Military Studies Department at Sangji University said, "The loudspeaker broadcasts aimed at South Korea are psychological terrorism by North Korea to somehow inflict pain on the South Korean people.
"The purpose of the terrorist attack is to provoke conflict between the South and the South, but to avoid being framed by North Korea, the government should respond proactively and swiftly to compensation for damages suffered by people living near the border," he said.
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