North Korea says it will resume propaganda broadcasts across border into South Korea

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea plans to resume anti-Seoul propaganda broadcasts along the heavily armed border with South Korea, leader Kim Jong Un’s sister said, reviving a psychological warfare campaign as tensions rise after land mine blasts injured three South Korean front-line soldiers.

Kim Yo Jong, her brother’s top spokesperson on Washington and Seoul, made the announcement Wednesday after visiting front-line areas where North Korean troops are reinforcing the border. She renewed a threat to retaliate against any South Korean provocation aimed at the fortification work.

In a follow-up statement Thursday, she said the North would place “new counter means” on alert along the border and have its loudspeakers on “standby” within days.

North Korea has been adding mines, barbed wire fences, anti-tank barriers and other fortifications to what is already one of the world’s most heavily armed borders as Kim Jong Un pushes a hard line toward Seoul.

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Touring the area with Marshal Pak Jong Chon, one of her brother’s top military officials, Kim Yo Jong called the fortification work a “sacred and great undertaking” supporting the leader’s policy of permanently severing ties with South Korea, which he has declared…

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