North Korea appears to have ceased operations of a radio station suspected of sending coded messages to its spies in the South.
Radio Pyongyang, also known as Voice of Korea, is a station known for broadcasting both entertainment programming and spoken lists of numbers that experts believe contain messages for overseas agents.
Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un reportedly halted the operation of Radio Pyongyang following a decision to reorganize inter-Korean affairs at a Workers’ Party meeting last month.
The radio station’s website has also apparently been taken down, according to Yonhap News Agency.
The station’s history dates back to 1945, when it opened its airwaves with Kim Il Sung’s victory speech after World War II.
North Korean officials suspended the program in 2000 and then resumed it in 2016.
International cooperation between the North and South has broken down in recent weeks after the Kim regime’s army fired a series of artillery bombardments into buffer zones between the countries, ostensibly for combat exercises.
North Korean soldiers riding armored vehicles with rocket launchers as they parade in Pyongyang, North Korea. AP
The regime reportedly held a meeting to plan the slow reduction of civil exchange with the southern neighbor.
South Korean intelligence estimates that approximately 260 projectiles were fired into the area earlier this month. The South Korean Defense Ministry reportedly fired approximately 400 rounds in response to the provocation.
Kim said last month that his regime “would in no way unilaterally bring about a major event due to the overwhelming force on the Korean Peninsula, but we also have no intention of avoiding war.”
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