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TOKYO, Aug 5 (KUNA) -- North Korea has yet to show any signs of dismantling its loudspeakers along the border with South Korea, a day after Seoul began removing its own border loudspeakers used for anti-Pyongyang broadcasts, Yonhap News Agency reported.
Joint Chiefs of Staff spokesperson Col. Lee Sung-jun said at a press briefing that as of Tuesday, there had been no movements by the North Korean military to dismantle their loudspeakers, only daily activities were detected.
On Monday, the South Korean military began removing fixed loudspeaker facilities installed along the heavily fortified border in what it called a "practical measure" to ease inter-Korean tensions, without affecting the military's readiness posture, according to the report.
South Korea's decision to dismantle its loudspeakers came less than two months after President Lee Jae-myung ordered the suspension of loudspeaker broadcasts in front-line areas as part of efforts to mend strained ties with the North.
North Korea has long bristled at the South's loudspeaker broadcasts and the leaflets sent by activists, fearing that such outside information could threaten its ruling regime. Pyongyang has also halted its own noise-blaring campaign against the South since June.
The two Koreas remain technically at war, as the 1950-53 Korean War ended in an armistice, not a peace treaty. (end)
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