South Korean and North Korean Continue Cold War-Style Campaigns Across Border

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Bloodshed and violent confrontations have occasionally occurred at the Koreas’ heavily fortified border, called the Demilitarized Zone. While Sunday’s incident happened amid simmering tensions between the two Koreas, observers say it won’t likely develop into another source of animosity as South Korea believes the North Koreans didn’t deliberately commit the border intrusion and North Korea also didn’t return fire.

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00:00 After North Korea flew more than a thousand balloons to drop trash on South Korea for weeks,

00:05 South Korea retaliated by broadcasting anti-North Korean propaganda over its loudspeakers at the

00:11 border for the first time in years. Now South Korea's military is saying that North Korea is

00:16 installing its own speakers at the border, although it hasn't started its own propaganda

00:21 broadcasts yet. The speaker standoff is the latest development in Cold War-style psychological

00:27 warfare campaigns between the Koreas. North Korea said its trash-carrying balloons launched toward

00:33 the South was a retaliation against South Korean civilian activists who fly anti-Pyongyang propaganda

00:39 leaflets across the border. North Korea also condemns South Korea's loudspeaker broadcasts

00:45 because it's extremely sensitive to any outside criticism about leader Kim Jong-un's government.

00:50 South Korea's loudspeaker broadcasts on Sunday reportedly included news, anti-Pyongyang commentary,

00:56 and also K-pop, which is strictly banned in the North.

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