South Korea stops blasting K-Pop and propaganda at North

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/06/11/south-korea-stops-blasting-k-pop-propaganda-north-jae-myung/

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  1. ***The Telegraph reports:***

    South Korea’s military has been ordered to stop playing K-Pop music and political propaganda through loudspeakers in the direction of North Korea.

    Seoul suspended the broadcasts along its demilitarised border on Wednesday morning as part of attempts by its new Left-wing government to cool tensions with its neighbour.

    A spokesman for South Korea’s defence ministry said: “The decision was made as part of efforts to carry out the promise of restoring inter-Korean trust and peace on the Korean Peninsula.”

    The two countries are technically still at war because no formal peace treaty was ever signed to officially end the Korean War, despite a ceasefire in 1953.

    Lee Jae-myung, who was elected South Korea’s new president last week, has vowed to restart talks with Pyongyang, which had considered the broadcasts to be an act of war and previously threatened to blow the loudspeakers up.

    Mr Lee said in his inaugural speech that he would “open a communication channel with North Korea and establish peace on the Korean Peninsula through talks and co-operation”.

    The broadcasts, which have been running on and off since the 1960s, had included a wide range of music and messages, from pop songs to more sensitive segments on democracy and capitalism.

    North Korea has also played broadcasts over the border, including messages condemning South Korea and its allies, but these have tended to be harder to hear because of the poor quality of the speakers used.

    The broadcasts on the South Korean side were paused in 2018 after the North sent balloons filled with waste paper, cloth scraps, cigarette butts and manure over the border. They resumed in July last year.

    A couple of weeks after they restarted, a new rubbish-filled balloon fell on the South Korean presidential compound, prompting questions about the security of the country’s key facilities.

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  2. I must admit, I would go a little crazy too if I had to constantly listen to South Korean K-pop….

  3. First sample is free, but when they crave more they will have to negotiate!

  4. Immagine the success if they would just show them some porn

  5. Now I understand why NKorea sent them balloons with garbage 😂

  6. They asked for it to stop cause one of the lyrics talked about love being like a warship going sideways sometimes. It’s the equivalent of country music talking about bars and barns or trucks.

  7. Extended exposure to k-pop was causing chronic health issues that had humanitarian implications.

  8. > Seoul suspended the broadcasts along its demilitarised border on Wednesday morning as part of attempts by its new Left-wing government to cool tensions with its neighbour. 

    Appeasement doesn’t work. How many times do we need to repeat this?

    They think Kim is going to be grateful? He’s just going to chalk this up as a victory against the evil south and carry on.

  9. I wonder how much knowledge does normal North Korean have in the English language? It makes me wonder what they think about the other K-pop songs that has a decent amount of English words on it

  10. Keep blasting it. The North Koreans secretly love the stuff. They just can’t admit it or be sent to a concentration camp.

  11. how to make NK a developed country: offer a wife to everyone who goes there. i’m sure every nerd from the south would accept

  12. “In 2023, Pyongyang also outlawed common South Korean phrases and made it illegal to speak in a South Korean accent.”

    Shows how little I know. I didn’t realize (and should of) that there was such a thing.

  14. I love this. Isnt this retaliation for North Korea sending over trash balloons ? 🤣

  15. They’ve been doing it this whole time?! I mean I haven’t heard anything crazy out of NK in a while so maybe Kim just had the entire country dancing.

  16. Whenever there is a post about Korea on a main sub all the comments are filled with half baked racist bullshit and it’s clear that not many people view this topic with a critical mind

  17. Was there last month and it’s no exaggeration they are *blasting* it as loudly as they can to the North. Not just kpop but also news bulletins and information about the outside world. Shit’s hilarious.

  20. Even ROK forces get sick of 24/7 K-Pop. Lol
    Blast some Black Sabbath for a change.

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