By Cynthia Kim
SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea stopped working a radio station used to ship coded messages to its brokers in South Korea, the Yonhap information company stated on Saturday, the most recent signal the remoted nation is shaking up the way in which it handles relations with Seoul.
North Korea has been stepping up strain on Seoul in latest weeks, declaring it the “principal enemy”, saying the North won’t ever reunite with the South and vowing to boost its capability to ship a nuclear strike on the U.S. and America’s allies within the Pacific.
Radio Pyongyang, generally known as a numbers station, up to now broadcast mysterious coded numbers presumed to be focused at Pyongyang’s spies working in South Korea. Its web site was additionally down on Saturday.
North Korean chief Kim Jong Un, addressing a year-end assembly of his ruling get together, ordered a “decisive coverage change” in relations with the South, instructing the army to be ready to pacify and occupy the South within the occasion of a disaster.
Early on Saturday, North Korea introduced plans to dissolve organisations accountable for civilian exchanges with South Korea. State media KCNA reported a call “to readjust all related organizations… together with the North Aspect Committee for Implementing June 15 Joint Declaration, the North Headquarters of the Pan-national Alliance for Korea’s Reunification”.
North and South Korea stay technically at battle after the 1950-53 Korean Conflict led to a truce, not a peace treaty, and tensions are working excessive.
Seoul-based information outlet NK Information stated on Friday a number of North Korean propaganda websites had been unaccessible greater than 24 hours after they went offline.
The web sites of Uriminzokkiri, DPRK Right now, Arirang Meari, Tongil Voice, Ryomyong and Ryugyong have been down since not less than Thursday morning, it stated.
(Reporting by Cynthia Kim; Extra reporting by Josh Smith; Modifying by William Mallard)