Send Balloons Propaganda South Korea to North Korea

Saturday, November 27, 2010 16:26 AM 

When North Korea fired artillery across the border this week, South Korea's reply not only with artillery, but also a weapon that fears the hardline regime - balloons.
According to media reports, Seoul soon launch a propaganda offensive that aims to undermine the power of Kim Jong Il's iron hand by sending anti-Pyongyang leaflets that brought the balloons melitasi the heavily fortified border, as quoted by AFP.
"We release balloons carrying leaflets as retaliation against the shooting," said a military official quoted by the newspaper JoongAng Ilbo.
"Flyers flyers that read criticism of Kim Jong Il and the succession of third genarasi descent, said the unnamed officials refer to the handover of power to the youngest son of Kim Jong Il, Kim Jong-Un.
Seoul six years ago promised to Pyongyang to halt such psychological warfare, or psychological operations, but reportedly resumed its South Korea after North Korea on Tuesday opened fire on a South Korean island that killed four people.
About 400,000 leaflets condemning North Korean leadership was scattered along the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) just hours after North Korea fired artillery into Yeonpyeong island, said the reports.
Leaflets were reportedly has been prepared after the sinking of a South Korean warship in March, killing 46 sailors that Seoul and experts blame on the North Korean team that mentorpedo ship.
Military officials, who declined to comment on the report, collect more powerful weapons in the war of ideas for the first time in recent years - the speakers are high voltage.
Broadcasts were aimed at generating anti-regime attitudes and messages of pro-democracy deep in the North Korean border area - as far as 24 kilo meters at night and 10 kilo meters in the daytime.
So far they are silent, but the South Korean defense ministry warned that the speakers that turn on in response to each new cross-border provocations.
North Korea, one of the most closed countries on earth, in the past, threatening to shoot the speakers when turned on and the locations from which the balloons are released propaganda.
The two Koreas are technically still in the war, because they were the year 1950-1953 conflict ended in an armistice, not a peace treaty.


SOURCE : ANTARA