SEOUL: The South Korean military has completed removing loudspeakers for propaganda broadcasts against North Korea along the heavily fortified border, military officials said Wednesday.
About 20 fixed speakers installed in the front-line areas had all been dismantled as of Tuesday afternoon, nearly a day after the military began removing them on Monday in an effort to ease inter-Korean tensions, according to officials.
The removed speakers are to be stored in military units, Yonhap news agency reported.
The move came less than two months after the South Korean President, Lee Jae Myung ordered the suspension of loudspeaker broadcasts in frontline areas as part of efforts to mend frayed ties with the North.
The North has since responded by suspending its own noise-blaring campaigns against the South in June.
However, North Korea has yet to show any signs of removing its own loudspeakers along the border areas in response to the South's removal, according to military officials.
North Korea has long bristled against the military's loudspeaker broadcasts and leaflets sent by activists over fears of outside information that could pose a threat to its ruling regime.