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A South Korean army soldier stands near the loudspeakers near the border area between South Korea and North Korea in Yeoncheon
NORTH and South Korea will pull back loudspeakers lined up along their border for blaring out propaganda against each other, the South’s President Moon Jae In said today as relations between the states continued to warm.
Mr Moon dismissed talk of his being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his summit with Northern leader Kim Jong Un on Friday, which ended with both sides pledging to work towards a peace treaty to formally end the 1950-53 Korean war.
“President [Donald] Trump can take the Nobel prize,” he said. “The only thing we need is peace.”
The summer of 1950 saw Labour abandon further nationalisation while escalating Korean War spending from £2.3m to £4.7m, as the government meekly accepted capitalism’s licence and became Washington’s yes-man, writes JOHN ELLISON
