Members of conservative groups in South Korea launch large plastic balloons carrying anti-Pyongyang leaflets into the air in their bid to send them into North Korea in the border town of Paju on March 28, 2016, a campaign that is strongly opposed by the North. (Yonhap)
Here is the latest propaganda attack against the US from North Korea which seems a new one is coming out every day now:
North Korea released a dramatic propaganda video Saturday called “Last Chance” that depicts a nuclear strike on Washington, complete with animation of a missile slamming into the earth near the Lincoln Memorial.
The four-minute video, backed by a hyper musical score reminiscent of TV Westerns of the 1960s, includes a mushroom cloud and an American flag going up in flames. [USA Today]
Here is the complete video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbOYRLlhIP4
A water tank on the rooftop of a residential building in Suwon, south of Seoul, was found partially destroyed on Feb. 2, 2016, after what police say was a heavy bundle of propaganda leaflets from North Korea fell on it. Police said they retrieved some 30,000 leaflets that criticized the South Korean president and extolled the North’s recent nuclear test. Pyongyang has been sending propaganda material across the border after Seoul, in retaliation against the Jan. 6 nuclear detonation, resumed anti-North broadcasts though border loudspeakers. (Photo provided by the Gyeonggi Provincial Police Agency) (Yonhap)
Leave it to the North Koreans to come up with propaganda balloons this crude:
North Korea has been floating balloons over the border with a cargo of propaganda leaflets denouncing the United States as well as South Korean leader Park Geun-hye, calling her “political filth.”
Recently, the leaflets have been accompanied by genuine filth: cigarette butts and used toilet paper.
According to military and police sources Monday, Pyongyang began sending the balloons carrying leaflets starting from Jan. 12 to retaliate for South Korea’s resumption of propaganda broadcasts at the border earlier that week. [Joong Ang Ilbo]
You can read the rest at the link.
N.Korean speakers broadcasting inward: S.Korean media https://t.co/aHBhs8u6k1
— Jieun Baek (@JieunBaek1) January 18, 2016
#DPRK propaganda leaflets found in Seoul, other areas — apparently sent from north to south on plastic balloons. pic.twitter.com/SzWlceODVO
— Steve Herman (@W7VOA) January 13, 2016
I am sure the ROK military has thoroughly thought through and rehearsed their plans in response to whatever the next provocation North Korea has planned:
Tensions are running high near the inter-Korean border Friday afternoon as South Korea’s military resumed loudspeaker propaganda broadcasts toward North Korea in the demilitarized zone(DMZ).
To deal with possible North Korean attacks on South Korean speaker facilities, the South’s military has issued its highest level of vigilance at eleven areas at the forefront, where the psychological warfare facilities have been installed.
A defense official said Friday that the military will thoroughly carry out propaganda broadcast operations, and it will respond sternly and accordingly if the North’s military engages in artillery provocations against the loudspeakers or nearby areas.
In case the North attacks, the South’s military is said to be planning to retaliate with fire power that is three to four times stronger than the North’s. [KBS World Radio]
You can read more at the link.
I would think the Kim regime would have expected this to happen, so it will be interesting to see what their response will be. Would they try and shoot at one of the loudspeakers again in response to further heighten tensions?:
In response to North Korea’s latest nuclear test, South Korea on Thursday announced it would resume cross-border propaganda broadcasts that Pyongyang considers an act of war. Seoul also began talks with Washington that could see the arrival of nuclear-powered U.S. submarines and warplanes to the Korean Peninsula.
From Seoul to Washington, Beijing to the United Nations, world powers are looking at ways to punish Pyongyang for the test of what it called a new and powerful hydrogen bomb.
The loudspeaker broadcasts, which will start Friday, believed to be the birthday of young North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, are certain to infuriate authoritarian Pyongyang because they are meant to raise questions in North Korean minds about the infallibility of the ruling Kim family. South Korea stopped earlier broadcasts after it agreed with Pyongyang in late August on a package of measures aimed at easing animosities that had the rivals threatening war.
Experts, meanwhile, are trying to uncover more details about the detonation that drew worldwide skepticism and condemnation. [Associated Press]
You can read the rest at the link.
This photo taken on Oct. 9, 2015, from an observatory in the South Korean border city of Paju, north of Seoul, shows the North Korean national flag flying on the top of a blue steel tower in Kijong-dong, a propaganda village in the northern sector of the 4-kilometer-wide zone that separates the two Koreas. North Korea will hold a military parade and other events the next day to mark the 70th anniversary of the foundation of the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea. (Yonhap)
This photo, taken on Sept. 20, 2015, by the Fighters for Free North Korea, an anti-Pyongyang activist group, shows a balloon that contains leaflets denouncing the hereditary power succession in the North, flying toward North Korea in the South Korean border city of Paju. The group said the next day it sent 200,000 leaflets on 10 balloons to protest against its moves to launch nuclear and missile tests amid opposition from the international community. (Yonhap)
