North Korea appears to have shut down a radio station suspected of sending coded messages to its spies in the South.
Radio Pyongyang — also known as the Voice of Korea — is a station known for broadcasting both entertainment programming and a talking list of numbers that experts insist contain messages for agents overseas.
Supreme leader Kim Jong Un has reportedly suspended Radio Pyongyang following a decision to restructure inter-Korean affairs at a Workers’ Party meeting last month.
The radio station’s website also appears to have been taken down, according to Yonhap News Agency.
The station traces its history back to 1945 when it graced the airwaves with Kim Il Sung’s post-World War II victory speech.
North Korean officials suspended the program in 2000, then resumed it in 2016.
International cooperation between the North and the South has broken down in recent weeks after the Kim regime’s military launched a series of artillery strikes into the buffer zone between the countries, ostensibly for combat training.
North Korean soldiers stand on armored vehicles with rocket launchers as they march in Pyongyang, North Korea. AP
The regime reportedly held a meeting planning to reduce civilian exchanges with the southern neighbor.
South Korean intelligence estimated about 260 projectiles were fired into the area earlier this month. South Korea’s Ministry of Defense reportedly fired about 400 shots in response to the provocation.
Kim said last month that his regime “will not unilaterally bring about a major event with overwhelming force on the Korean peninsula, but we do not intend to avoid war either.”
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Source: thtrangdai.edu.vn/en/
