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