Easing of censorship allows South Koreans a firsthand look at North’s propaganda

For the first time, South Korea has eased restrictions on access to the Rodong Sinmun, the newspaper of the North’s ruling Workers’ Party. A close reading shows how it glorifies the regime and shapes narratives on domestic and global events.

2026-02-10

DP railroads ban on balloons to North in contentious committee meeting

South Korean lawmakers clashed on Thursday as the Democratic Party railroaded a bill out of committee that bans activists from sending balloons over the border with leaflets denouncing North Korea.

2025-09-25

North Korea promotes 'Paektu Spirit' and trekking to the mountain as 80th anniversary of Korean liberation approaches

North Korea is urging its citizens to channel the “Paektu Spirit” and trek to Mount Paektu — a sacred symbol of revolutionary grit and a centerpiece of state propaganda.

2025-08-12

North Korea begins removing propaganda speakers on border: JCS

North Korea on Saturday began removing some of its border loudspeakers used for anti-South Korea broadcasts on Saturday, according to the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS).

2025-08-09

South Korea dismantles border loudspeakers despite North's lack of engagement

South Korea’s military began dismantling fixed loudspeakers along the border with North Korea on Monday, 14 months after the former administration reactivated them in response to Pyongyang’s provocative trash balloon campaigns.

2025-08-04

South starts taking down border loudspeakers in effort to reduce tensions with North

South Korea began dismantling its border loudspeakers used to blare propaganda into North Korea, officials said Monday. The decision comes less than two months after the government halted such broadcasts in an effort to de-escalate tensions.

2025-08-04

South Korean spy agency suspends loudspeaker broadcasts toward North amid shift in strategic landscape, propaganda efforts

The NIS recently suspended its loudspeaker broadcasts toward North Korea, a move a senior official on Wednesday says reflects a shift in the strategic landscape and comes in response to Pyongyang’s earlier halt of its own propaganda efforts.

2025-07-24

North Korean song hypes Pyongyang's skyline even as flood-hit towns remain unrepaired

While North Korea has been actively distributing a new propaganda song lauding the development of Pyongyang to instill ideology among its people, post-disaster recovery efforts in severely flood-damaged regions remain stalled nearly a year on.

2025-06-08

South Korean Coast Guard thwarts planned maritime launch of anti-North leaflets

The Korea Coast Guard on Tuesday afternoon shut down an attempt by groups of North Korean defectors and relatives of South Koreans abducted to the North to launch anti-Pyongyang leaflets using fishing vessels from the waters off Gangwon.

2024-11-19

Anti-North Korea groups to conduct first leaflet launch from sea in 16 years

Groups of North Korean defectors and relatives of South Koreans abducted to the North were poised to send anti-Pyongyang leaflets from the waters off Gangwon on Tuesday.