North Korean troops have started removing propaganda loudspeakers used to blare unsettling noises along the border, South Korea’s military said Saturday, days after Seoul’s new administration dismantled ones on its side of the frontier.

The two countries had already halted propaganda broadcasts along the demilitarised zone, Seoul’s military said in June after the election of President Lee Jae Myung, who is seeking to ease tensions with Pyongyang.

South Korea’s defence ministry on Monday said it had begun removing loudspeakers from its side of the border as “a practical measure aimed at helping ease tensions with the North”.

South Korea had been blaring K-pop and news reports to the North in response to Pyongyang transmitting bizarre, unsettling noises along the border that had become a

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