Two Koreas dismantle propaganda loudspeakers at tense borderThe rival Koreas dismantled huge loudspeakers used to blare Cold War-style propaganda across their tense border on Tuesday, as South Korea's president asked the United Nations to observe the North's planned closing of its nuclear test site. South Korean soldiers disassembled loudspeakers in multiple front-line areas in the presence of journalists before pulling them away from the border, the Defence Ministry said. CHUNG SUNG-JUN/GETTY IMAGES South Korean soldiers take down a propaganda loudspeakers on the border with North Korea on May 1 in Paju, South Korea. A South Korea military officer said later on Tuesday that North Korea had also begun taking down its propaganda loudspeakers earlier in the day. In 2014, North Korean soldiers opened fire after South Korean activists sent anti-North leaflets over the border with large balloons, prompting South Korea to return fire.

Source: Stuff May 01, 2018 18:33 UTC