🇰🇷❌🇰🇵❗️ — South Korean National Security Council expected to discuss resuming loudspeaker campaign as retaliation to North's launch of trash-carrying balloons

➡️ According to Yonhap News Agency, the presidential National Security Council (NSC) is expected to discuss a plan to resume Anti-Communist propaganda campaigns via State-owned loudspeakers across the border with North Korea, in response to the North's launch of some 600 balloons carrying trash to the South, a source close to the matter said Sunday.

➡️ The NSC meeting will be held Sunday afternoon and presided over by National Security Adviser Jang Ho-jin, according to the office of President Yoon Suk Yeol.

➡️ It marks the first time the presidential office will hold an NSC meeting over the North's balloon provocation.

➡️ A source within South Korea's military said to Yonhap News Agency, "Loudspeakers against North Korea are ready to resume at any time."

➡️ South Korea's propaganda campaign via loudspeakers had temporarily resumed in 2010, 2015 and 2016 in the wake of the North's provocations.

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🇲🇽☠️🗳 — With the murders of 37 political candidates since June 2023, Mexico has experienced a one of its bloodiest election seasons this year, now with just days to go before Sunday's presidential election

❗️ The violence hasn't stopped even as the campaigns drew to an official close; two mayoral candidates were murdered this week, one on Tuesday and another on Wednesday.

📈 There have been 339 aggressions towards political candidates in 2024, which includes threats, murders, kidnappings, attempted murders, armed attacks and disappearances.

🪖 President Andrés Manuel López Obrador assured the public in a May 21 morning press conference that 3,000 military troops are protecting at least 500 candidates across the country.

🌹 However, Claudia Sheinbaum, the presidential front-runner, said she would continue López Obrador's "hugs, not bullets" policy, and Xóchitl Gálvez, her closest opponent, blamed the level of insecurity on this policy, calling Sheinbaum the "narco-candidate."