has suspended a military-run propaganda radio broadcast into , the defense ministry announced on Monday.
The move is the latest in a series of steps undertaken by the administration of South Korea’s new President , in its quest to ease tensions with the nuclear-armed North.
What did Seoul say about the halt to the anti-Pyongyang broadcasts?
South Korea’s Defense Ministry said it wanted to reduce tensions with Pyongyang.
“The defense ministry suspended the Voice of Freedom broadcast as part of measures to ease military tensions with the North,” ministry spokesperson Lee Kyung-ho said at a media briefing on Monday.
The “Voice of Freedom,” a psychological warfare broadcast, first aired in 1962 and has been on and off the airwaves with the tumultuous trajectory of inter-Korean relations.
The program was said to broadcast outside information and K-pop music into North Korea, which strictly regulates the access its civilians have to external information.
Lee pushing to improve ties with North Korea
In recent weeks, the Lee government has stopped a number of other radio broadcasts into the North containing news from South Korea and the rest of the world.
Seoul has also halted the broadcast of propaganda from loudspeakers along the heavily-armed frontier between the two Koreas and has even some of the physical loudspeakers.
Lee has sought a thaw in ties with Pyongyang since taking office in June but North Korea has shown no interest in improving relations.
Last week, North Korea called Lee a “” over his remarks calling for a “path to denuclearization”.
Edited by: Saim Dušan Inayatullah
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