Chung Jeom-sik: "Loudspeakers aimed at North Korea must be reinstalled and broadcasts to North Korea resumed"

[Financial News] People Power Party floor leader Chung Jeom-sik claimed on the 29th that the government was maintaining a conciliatory posture toward North Korea and argued that it should reinstall the loudspeakers aimed at North Korea that had been removed and resume broadcasts to North Korea. He made the remarks after the Republic of Korea Joint Chiefs of Staff (ROK JCS) announced in its initial joint on-site investigation into the suspected mine explosion in the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) that the mine was highly likely to have been planted by the North Korean military.
Chung Jeom-sik said at a floor leadership meeting held at the National Assembly, "As expected, North Korea's low-level act of provocation has effectively been confirmed."
Chung Jeom-sik urged, "Given that North Korea's provocation is now virtually certain, the government must take decisive measures commensurate with it. When North Korea carried out the 2015 wooden-box mine provocation, we responded immediately by resuming broadcasts to North Korea over loudspeakers. The government must first immediately reinstall the loudspeakers aimed at North Korea that it removed and resume broadcasts to North Korea."
He further stressed, "The government must fundamentally strengthen its posture along the Military Demarcation Line (MDL) to prevent further provocations by North Korea. Above all, the government and the ruling party must use this incident to declare the abandonment of their submissive policy toward North Korea. It is only right to scrap the budget for aid to North Korea in its entirety."
Chung Jeom-sik said, "President Lee Jae Myung mentioned at a United Nations (UN) address an exchange of lifting sanctions on North Korea for a nuclear freeze, while Democratic Party of Korea leader Kim Min-seok spoke of a consensus on an inter-Korean peace regime. Even now, I hope the government and the ruling party will finally break free from the delusion of 'fake peace' and face squarely the harsh reality of North Korean mines exploding."

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