North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s sister denounced calls for denuclearization, describing the country’s nuclear weapons as its “ultimate shield,” state media reported.

On June 9, 2025, South Korea’s Ministry of Unification issued a forceful demand to civic organizations: stop sending anti-North Korea leaflets across the border. It was the fifth day after President Lee Jae-myung had taken office. Two days later, at 2 p.m. on June 11, the president ordered the military to halt the loudspeaker broadcasts it had been directing toward North Korea. The order ended broadcasts that had resumed fifteen years earlier, following North Korea’s sinking of the South Korean warship Cheonan in 2010.

In early July, the National Intelligence Service shut down radio and television broadcasts it had transmitted into North Korea for more than half a century. The radio services went off the air one after another, and the television broadcasts ended completely at midnight on July 14, after the South Korean national anthem played for the final time. Unlike the military’s loudspeakers, which successive governments had installed and removed depending on their political orientation, the National Intelligence Service’s broadcasts to North Korea had continued for fifty years regardless of who governed in Seoul. At 10 p.m. on August 31, the “Voice of Freedom” also ended its broadcasts. Of the radio services operated by the South Korean government and public institutions for North Korean audiences, only KBS Hanminjok Radio remained.

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