US EditionSouth Korea Suspends Anti-North Korea Radio Broadcasts
The suspension ends 15 years of broadcasts including K-pop and news aimed at North Korea, reflecting a strategic step in South Korea's diplomatic efforts to reduce tensions.
- On Monday , South Korea's Defense Ministry announced it had suspended the Voice of Freedom military radio broadcast transmitting to North Korea, marking the first halt in 15 years.
- Since taking office in June, President Lee Jae Myung ordered the South Korean military to stop propaganda broadcasts and urged activists sending balloons to cease, while the National Intelligence Service suspended broadcasts in July.
- Dating to 1962, the Voice of Freedom was pulled off air in 2004 and resumed in 2010 after the Cheonan sinking that killed 46 sailors.
- The Defense Ministry said the suspension marks the first such halt in 15 years, and Seoul has also stopped loudspeaker broadcasts and removed some speakers along the border.
- The Lee administration presented the step as part of efforts to restore dialogue, but Pyongyang dismissed Lee as `hypocrite` and reaffirmed its nuclear stance, the Korean Central News Agency reported Wednesday.
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South Korea Ends 15-Year Propaganda War Against North in Dramatic Policy Shift
South Korea officially terminated its military radio broadcasts targeting North Korea on September 1, 2025, marking the end of a 15-year psychological warfare campaign. Deputy Defense Ministry Spokesperson Lee Kyung-ho announced the suspension of “Voice of Freedom” during a press briefing, stating the decision aimed to reduce military tensions between the two nations. The radio […]
South Korea Stops ‘Voice of Freedom’ Radio Broadcasts Aimed at North Korea
South Korea has stopped broadcasting a propaganda radio program into North Korea, the defense ministry said on Monday, as part of wider efforts from Seoul to de-escalate tensions with Pyongyang. The Ministry of National Defense told reporters it had “halted the ‘Voice of Freedom’ broadcast as part of efforts to ease inter-Korean military tensions,” according to South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency. The ‘Voice of Freedom’ aired items aimed at informi…
End of transmission for the "Voice of Freedom" radio on the Korean peninsula. The South Korean government announced the suspension of this radio for the North Koreans, with a view to calming tensions with Kim Jong-un's regime.
The South Korean authorities have put an end this Monday to the retransmission of a propaganda radio program aimed at North Korea, a measure that constitutes a new gesture of rapprochement by the South Korean President's administration, Lee Jae Myung , which has opted for an improvement in relations between the two Koreas. The South Korean Ministry of Defence has explained in a statement that the broadcast of the 'Freedom Voices' program has end…
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