South Korea's President Lee Jae- myung ordered the discontinuation of the loudspeakers to "promote peace on the Korean Peninsula." In return, Pyongyang appears to have stopped its loudspeakers near the border.

South Korea suspended its propaganda loudspeaker broadcasts across the border to North Korea, officials said Tuesday, in a bid to reduce tensions with Pyongyang under the administration of newly elect

Lee Jae-myung, the new president of South Korea, said he would stop the propaganda broadcasts by his predecessor that raised tensions with Seoul’s neighboring foe.