Broadcasts to North to resume

In response to North Korea’s latest nuclear test, South Korea announced that it would resume crossborder propaganda broadcasts that the Pyongyang government considers an act of war. Seoul also began talks with Washington that could see the arrival of nuclear-powered U.S. submarines and warplanes to the Korean peninsula.

From Seoul to Washington, Beijing to the United Nations, world powers are looking at ways to punish Pyongyang for the test of what it called a new and powerful hydrogen bomb.

The loudspeaker broadcasts, which will start Friday, believed to be the birthday of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, are certain to infuriate authoritarian Pyongyang because they are meant to raise questions in North Korean minds about the infallibility of the ruling Kim family.

South Korea stopped earlier broadcasts after an agreement with Pyongyang in late August on measures aimed at easing animosities.