North Korea responded by launching artillery shells at the loudspeakers and announcing a “quasi-state of war.” .
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The U.N. Security Council that has pledged new sanctions against North Korea after its purported hydrogen bomb test on Wednesday.
The propaganda broadcasts “are certain to infuriate authoritarian Pyongyang because they are meant to raise questions in North Korean minds about the infallibility of the ruling Kim family”, The Associated Press reports.
“Our troops will remain in a state of full readiness and be fully prepared for a firm response in the event of any provocation from the North”, he added.
The data indicates Wednesday’s test used an “identical design”, the analyst said.
In the past, the broadcasts typically blared messages about alleged North Korean government mismanagement, human rights conditions, and the superiority of South Korean-style democracy, as well as world news and weather forecasts.
USA officials have also said there are few targets available because of the North’s isolation from the global financial system.
They give North Koreans a rare glimpse of the contrasting economic and social realities between the two countries and are reviled by the Kim regime.
When South Korea briefly resumed propaganda broadcasts in August after an 11-year break, the two Koreas ended up threatening each other with attacks that brought them to the brink of war.
Broadcasting will begin Friday, coinciding with Kim’s birthday.
South Koreans are divided over the resumption of propaganda broadcasts across the border into North Korea in response to Pyongyang’s nuclear test.
US President Barack Obama, confirming discussions with his South Korean counterpart Park Geun-Hye and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, said both Tokyo and Seoul were ready to work together.
Japan’s House of Councillors adopted a resolution Friday lodging a strong protest against North Korea over its fourth nuclear test conducted earlier this week.
U.S. Republicans and Democrats in the House of Representatives could join forces in a rare display of unity to further tighten sanctions on North Korea.
But neighbouring rival South Korea has cast doubt on the North’s nuclear weapon claims. Yun pushed Wang to “sternly punish” North Korea over the test, the South Korean foreign ministry said. Although there is skepticism that North Korea carried out the test as claimed, its actions have been condemned internationally.
The North’s claim of a successful test drew extreme scepticism overseas.
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Hydrogen bombs use a two-step process of fission and fusion that releases substantially more energy than an atomic bomb.
