South Korea Blasts BTS’s Songs At The Border, North Korea Warns Of Escalation
Previously, we reported on North Korea’s bizarre response to South Korean organizations in the form of trash-filled balloons sent over the border.
South Korea retaliated against this move with something termed as a “propaganda broadcast.” On June 9, KST, South Korea re-deployed gigantic loudspeakers along its border with the North for the first time in six years for anti-North Korea propaganda broadcast. According to reports, the broadcast included BTS’s hit songs such as “Butter” and “Dynamite.”
Kim Yo Jong, the sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, responded to Seoul’s propaganda broadcast, stating that they risked provoking a “crisis of confrontation.”
This is a prelude to a very dangerous situation.
— Kim Yo Jong
Political analysts believe that North Korea is extremely sensitive to Seoul’s ear-piercing broadcasts. They see such messaging as potentially demoralizing to front-line troops and residents and fear that it can weaken Kim Jong Un’s iron grip on public discourse.
The broadcasts leading to escalations are not just a theory either. In 2015, when South Korea first resumed its loudspeaker broadcasts after a long pause, the North fired artillery rounds across the border. South Korea returned the fire, and no casualties were reported.
This time, on the same day South Korea resumed its broadcasts, soldiers from the North briefly crossed over the Military Demarcation Line within the DMZ, separating the two countries. According to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, South Korean soldiers warned them and fired into the air, following which the North Korean soldiers retreated to their side of the border.
Fans have reacted to this news in polar opposite manners. While some deemed it a funny move on South Korea’s part and an acknowledgment of BTS’s status in the country, many voiced their concern over the implications of such retaliatory actions involving BTS, especially given that most of the members are enlisted in the military right now.
NK soldiers be like : pic.twitter.com/sXcXhRVpvD
— Wildflowers ⁷ (@CjnismygfanOt7) June 9, 2024
She would be very happy today.😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/5XYXYLod7C
— Silly Soul (@SillySoul98) June 9, 2024
using bts as propaganda while they're actively serving in the military and could make them vulnerable to unnecessary attention and potential harm from nokor. 🤷🏻♀️ https://t.co/lpnCDUo3ix
— blessed. 💞✨ (@pinkvoila) June 10, 2024
Kpop stans in the qrts using this to somehow sht on bts and their songs like mfs bts are being used bec they are south korean artists and NK do not fuck with SK music. Sk is using bts in their dirty psychological warfare, nothing to giggle about u stupid fvcks. https://t.co/pZImPNQ1pr
— Hareem⁷🍉 Jinnie's 🐹 cb day (@suguruhyyh2) June 10, 2024
how can yall find this funny? sk is literally using bts to provoke nk. some members are on the front lines and all of them are still serving. this could put them in direct harm. many armys under these posts are making jokes and kekeing, not a single worry about their safety pic.twitter.com/54cowHk6gI
— naia 🩷 (@koomiologist) June 9, 2024
girl wdym SK chose blood sweat and tears to blast to NK and y’all find that shit amusing… pic.twitter.com/xwtOJ0eTM7
— ͏͏ً (@CKRJEONZ) June 9, 2024
do these ppl forget that sk and nk citizens have always been wishing for reunification and that bts, themselves, support the reunification??? https://t.co/fcpGLSSpp2
— hand of midas 🍉🔻 (@seaofl1es) June 9, 2024
