South Korea Responds To North’s H-Bomb With Propaganda Broadcasts

South Korea has announced plans to restart broadcasts along its border with North Korea.

"The broadcasts typically include news updates, weather updates, and anti-North Korean propaganda messages" and even local pop music, NPR Seoul reported Thursday.

North Korea views them as an act of war, though as the report notes, "they're still technically at war anyway."

"The broadcasts last resumed following an 11 year break in August 2015. South Korea stopped them in August following days of talks that resulted in a deal to defuse tensions. It's safe to say those tensions have returned."

The propaganda broadcasts "are certain to infuriate authoritarian Pyongyang because they are meant to raise questions in North Korean minds about the infallibility of the ruling Kim family," the Associated Press reported.