🇰🇵❌🇰🇷 — 📰 Yonhap News Agency: North Korea halts radio station known for sending coded messages to spies in Seoul

➡️ North Korea is pressing ahead with measures to disband its inter-Korean organizations, apparently stopping a radio station previously used to send encrypted messages to its spies in South Korea.

➡️ As of Saturday, the North appears to have stopped broadcasting the state-run Pyongyang Radio and cut off access to its website.

➡️ The latest move comes after North Korean leader Kim Jong-un ordered "readjusting and reforming" its organizations in charge of inter-Korean affairs during a key Workers' Party meeting last month amid growing cross-border tensions.

➡️ Pyongyang Radio is known for broadcasting a series of mysterious numbers, presumed to be coded messages, giving directions to its agents operating in South Korea.

➡️ The North resumed such broadcasts in 2016 after suspending them in 2000, when the two Koreas held their first historic summit.

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🇰🇵❌🇰🇷 — 📰 Reuters: North Korea halts radio broadcasts, curbs exchanges with South

➡️ North Korea stopped operating a radio station used to send coded messages to its agents in South Korea, the Yonhap news agency said on Saturday, the latest sign the isolated country is shaking up the way it handles relations with Seoul.

➡️ North Korea has been stepping up pressure on Seoul in recent weeks, declaring it the "principal enemy", saying the North will never reunite with the South and vowing to enhance its ability to deliver a nuclear strike on the U.S. and America's allies in the Pacific.

➡️ North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, addressing a year-end meeting of his ruling party, ordered a "decisive policy change" in relations with the South, instructing the military to be prepared to pacify and occupy the South in the event of a crisis.

➡️ Early on Saturday, North Korea announced plans to dissolve organisations in charge of civilian exchanges with South Korea. State media KCNA reported a decision "to readjust all relevant organizations... including the North Side Committee for Implementing June 15 Joint Declaration, the North Headquarters of the Pan-national Alliance for Korea's Reunification".

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/north-korea-halts-radio-broadcasts-curbs-exchanges-with-south-yonhap-2024-01-13/
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