South Korea launches

psychological warfare

South Korea has unleashed a barrage of high-decibel propaganda via loudspeakers along the border with North Korea in retaliation for its nuclear test

RUSSIA

CHINA

Punggye-ri test site: North Korea claims

it conducted hydrogen bomb test

NORTH

KOREA

Sea of

Japan

(East

Sea)

Seoul

Yellow

Sea

(West

Sea)

100km

60 miles

EFFECTIVE HEARING RANGE

24km at night

10km during day

North Korea

guard

post

40 banks

of loudspeakers

located at 11 secret

sites along border

Military

Demarcation

Line (MDL)

Battery of as many as 80

loudspeakers could stand

up to 10 metres tall

PROPAGANDA BROADCASTS

Messages critical of Kim

Jong-un regime

International news,

commercials for consumer

goods, and “K-pop” music

Considered an insult by

North which has in past

threatened military strikes

to stop them

Source: The Korean Times

Pictures: Associated Press, Getty Images

© GRAPHIC NEWS

South Korea launches

psychological warfare

South Korea has unleashed a barrage of high-decibel propaganda via loudspeakers along the border with North Korea in retaliation for its nuclear test

RUSSIA

CHINA

Punggye-ri test site:

North Korea claims

it conducted hydrogen

bomb test

NORTH

KOREA

Sea of

Japan

(East

Sea)

Seoul

Yellow

Sea

(West

Sea)

100km

60 miles

PROPAGANDA

BROADCASTS

Messages critical

of Kim Jong-un regime

International news,

commercials for consumer

goods, and “K-pop” music

Considered an insult

by North which has in

past threatened military

strikes to stop them

Battery of as many as 80 loudspeakers

could stand up to 10 metres tall

EFFECTIVE HEARING RANGE

24km at night

10km during day

North Korea

guard

post

40 banks

of loudspeakers

located at 11 secret

sites along border

Military

Demarcation

Line (MDL)

Source: The Korean Times

Pictures: Associated Press, Getty Images

© GRAPHIC NEWS

South Korea

launches

psychological

warfare

South Korea has unleashed a barrage of high-decibel propaganda via loudspeakers along the border with North Korea in retaliation for its nuclear test

Punggye-ri test site: North Korea

claims it conducted hydrogen

bomb test

CHINA

NORTH

KOREA

Sea of

Japan

(East

Sea)

Seoul

Yellow

Sea

(West

Sea)

100km

60 miles

Battery of

as many

as 80

loudspeakers

could stand

up to 10m tall

HEARING RANGE

24km at night

10km during day

North

guard

post

Military Demarcation

Line (MDL)

40 banks

of loudspeakers located at

11 secret sites along border

PROPAGANDA BROADCASTS

Messages critical of Kim

Jong-un regime

International news,

commercials for consumer

goods, and “K-pop” music

Considered an insult by

North which has in past

threatened military strikes

to stop them

Source: The Korean Times

Pictures: Associated Press, Getty Images

© GRAPHIC NEWS