North Korea has put South Korea on notice that it intends to switch its border loudspeakers back on, and Seoul's answer so far has been to promise a response without saying what that response would be.
The warning, and who delivered it
Kim Yo-jong, the North Korean leader's sister, issued the warning over two consecutive days this week, saying Pyongyang will resume propaganda broadcasts aimed at the South later this month. She framed the move as a reaction to accusations Seoul has leveled at North Korean troops, tying the threat directly to an unresolved dispute between the two militaries rather than presenting it as an isolated provocation. She was accompanied on a border inspection by Pak Jong-chon, vice chairman of the North's Central Military Commission, underscoring that the threat carries the weight of the North's military leadership rather than being a single official's statement.
Seoul's answer: a response, details withheld
On the South Korean side, defense ministry spokesperson Chung Binna said the government would take what she described as a proportionate measure if the broadcasts actually resume, while declining to specify what form that measure would take. Her phrasing, that nothing has been decided yet, leaves Seoul room to calibrate its response to whatever North Korea actually does rather than committing in advance to a specific countermeasure.