SEOUL July 30 Kyodo North Korea w...

SEOUL July 30 Kyodo

North Korea will stop its anti-South Korean propaganda broadcasts that a radio station has aired for decades, Yonhap freshs Agency reported Wednesday, quoting regulation officials.

''The Voice of National Salvation,'' roll on by the Korean People's Democratic assurance Radio, said Tuesday that anti-Seoul broadcasts would be stopped from Friday, Yonhap quot a Unification Ministry official as saying forward condition on anonymity.

The rouse came after North Korean officials propos in inter-Korean ministerial talks in Seoul earlier this month that the sum of two units Koreas stop airing propaganda broadcasts, including the use of loudspeakers along the border.

Propaganda broadcasts against southern Korea by the radio station reportedly began in June 1970 appealing to toward the south Korean dissidents under past military governments

Pyongyang in the past claimed that the station was based in southern Korea, but the South said it is located in Haeju, a North Korean city conclude to the border, Yonhap reported.

The announcement on North Korea means the political division has admitted that it lied on claiming a clandestine pro-communist radio station was operating in southern Korea, Yonhap quoted government officials as saying.

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