{"id":73233,"date":"2025-08-04T12:56:25","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T03:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/04\/south-korea-removing-loudspeakers-north"},"modified":"2025-08-04T12:56:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T03:56:25","slug":"south-korea-begins-removing-loudspeakers-on-border-with-north-to-reduce-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73233","title":{"rendered":"South Korea begins removing loudspeakers on border with North to reduce tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Overture from new president Lee Jae Myung is latest effort to revive dialogue with Pyongyang that stalled under his predecessor<\/p>\n<p>South Korean authorities have begun removing loudspeakers that blare propaganda broadcasts along its border with the North, Seoul\u2019s defence ministry said on Monday, as the new government of President Lee Jae Myung seeks to ease tensions with Pyongyang.<\/p>\n<p>South Korea\u2019s dismantling of the loudspeakers was a \u201cpractical measure that can help ease inter-Korean tensions without affecting the military\u2019s readiness posture,\u201d the ministry said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/04\/south-korea-removing-loudspeakers-north\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overture from new president Lee Jae Myung is latest effort to revive dialogue with Pyongyang that stalled under his predecessorSouth Korean authorities have begun removing loudspeakers that blare propaganda broadcasts along its border with the North, S&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,40,222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-north-korea","category-south-korea"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73234,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73233\/revisions\/73234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}