South Korea starts removing anti-North Korean loudspeakers on border
began removing on Monday loudspeakers blaring anti-North Korea broadcasts along the country's border, Seoul's defence ministry said, as the new government of President
Lee Jae Myung
seeks to ease tensions with Pyongyang.
Shortly after he took office in June, Lee's administration switched off
propaganda broadcasts
criticizing the North Korean regime as it looks to revive stalled dialogue with its neighbour.
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The countries remain technically at war after the 1950-53
Korean war
ended in a truce and relations have deteriorated in the last few years.
South Korea's dismantling of the loudspeakers from Monday is just a "practical measure to help ease tensions between the South and the North," the ministry said in a statement on Monday.
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