North Korea appears to have reinstalled loudspeakers near the border to air anti-South Korean propaganda, according to the ROK military, even as the South refrained from using its own loudspeakers following an initial test.

“It has been identified that North Korea has installed loudspeakers for anti-South broadcasts in the front-line areas,” the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) stated on Monday.

JCS added that North Korea has yet to resume broadcasts from its loudspeakers, but that South Korea’s military is monitoring DPRK activities and maintaining a state of readiness.

North Korea’s apparent redeployment of the speakers near the inter-Korean border came