North Korea has a new weapon against the South: Noise bombardment

Relations between the two eternal neighbors on the Korean peninsula have fallen to their lowest level in years. North Korea is using a new and disturbing weapon against the South in their long-standing border tensions. Pyongyang is spreading fear and uncertainty across the border by broadcasting eerie sounds that villagers say are making their lives hell.

South Korea’s border villages were shaken by a loud, disturbing sound, like the repeated tolling of a giant gong. People living in this South Korean village on the North Korean border hear different sounds at different times and describe themselves as “victims of noise bombing.”
Since July, North Korea has been broadcasting propaganda 10 to 24 hours a day through loudspeakers on the South Korean border. The latest attack highlights how strange and unbearable relations have become since the time of North leader Kim Jong-Un and South Korean leader Yoon Suk Yeol.
The lives of people living between North and South Korea are being further affected by the deteriorating ties.

People living in border villages described the noise attacks as “bombing without bullets.”

Since the 1960s, loudspeakers have been as much a part of border areas as barbed wire fences and landmine warning signs. People living along the border endured propaganda broadcasts as part of life on the frontier, with rival governments turning them on and off depending on the political mood.
The latest bombardment from the north leaves no sound or music, just what villagers say are hard to describe, except for what they call “disturbing” and “stressful” sounds. They blame the attacks for insomnia, headaches and even miscarriages in goats, fewer eggs in chickens and the sudden death of a pet dog.
Under Kim Jong-Un, Pyongyang has moved toward a sharper stance in the past few years.
It has cut off all dialogue with Seoul and Washington, intensified its nuclear missile tests and vowed to treat South Korea not as a partner for reunification but as an enemy that the North must annex in the event of war.
Further complicating the global picture is North Korea’s strengthening of ties with Moscow this year.
North Korea has sent weapons and troops to help Russia in the war. North Korean soldiers officially entered the conflict on Russia’s behalf at Kursk.
The two countries also recently signed a mutual defense pact that would be activated if either were attacked.
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