SEOUL: North Korea has stopped operating a radio station utilized to send coded messages to its agents in South Korea, the Yonhap news agency reported on Saturday.
North Korea has been stepping up pressure on South Korea in recent weeks, declaring it the “major enemy”, adding North Korea will never reunite with the South Korea and pledging to increase its ability to deliver a nuclear attack on the US and Washington’s allies in the Pacific.
N Korea Stops Radio Broadcasts, Curbs exchanges with S Korea
Radio Pyongyang’s website was also down on Saturday, local media reported. North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un, addressing a year-end session of his ruling party, issued an order a “pivotal policy change” in ties with South Korea, instructing the army to be prepared to pacify and occupy the South in the event of a conflict.
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Earlier, N Korea announced strategies to dissolve organisations in charge of civilian exchanges with Seoul. Official media of North Korea KCNA reported a decision “to readapt all relevant organizations… including the North Side Committee for Executing June 15 Joint Declaration, the North Headquarters of the Pan-national Alliance for Korea’s Reunification”.
North Korea and South Korea remain technically at conflict after the 1950-53 Korean War finished in a ceasefire, not a peace agreement, and tensions are running high.
