Seoul resumes psychological warfare with Pyongyang

Source: ap

SEOUL, South Korea – Tensions on the Korean peninsula soared Tuesday as South Korea resumed propaganda broadcasts into North Korea in retaliation for the deadly sinking of a warship, while the North's leader reportedly has ordered troops ready for combat.

The South's restarting of psychological warfare operations was among measures it announced Monday, along with slashing trade, to punish Pyongyang for the March torpedo strike that sank a navy warship and killed 46 sailors.

The U.S. has thrown its full support behind South Korea's moves to retaliate, which also include bringing North Korea before the U.N. Security Council. China — North Korea's main ally and aid provider and a veto-weilding member of the Security Council — has so far done little but urge calm on all sides.
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In coming weeks, South Korea also will install dozens of propaganda loudspeakers and towering electronic billboards along the heavily armed land border between the two Koreas to send messages enticing communist soldiers to defect to the South.

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"propaganda loudspeakers and towering electronic billboards" - feels like i'm reading a book of history and instead it's an AP from today.
this all is surreal.

The Korean Conflict never ended, it's just been on pause for 60 years.

Edit: Or maybe slo-mo would be more accurate given the low-yield terrorism and skirismhing that goes on.

check out Paul Virilio or CTheory.net

(see also Deleuze and Guattari, a Thousand Plateaus, chapters "The War Machine" and "Apparatus of Capture" (the preceding and following chapters fit nicely, too, but are more about segmentation/smooth spaces).

if you are into that sort of thing