South Korea has not resumed loudspeaker broadcasts at the inter-Korean border as North Korea claimed earlier this week, a Seoul official told NK News on Wednesday.

The DPRK’s Korean People’s Army (KPA) leveled the accusation that South Korea operated propaganda loudspeakers in a statement on Monday, after ships from the two Koreas traded warning shots on Monday and accused the other side of encroaching on their respective maritime territories.

Seoul said Monday that it had sounded warnings against a North Korean merchant ship that crossed the border.

A South Korean military official dismissed the DPRK’s claims on Wednesday. “The ROK