North Korea’s Kim Yo Jong warns South Korea, says border loudspeakers to be ready within days

SEOUL, Oct 22 (Reuters) North Korea will place anti-South Korea loudspeakers on standby along the entire border within days and has put new countermeasures on alert, Kim ​Yo Jong, the powerful sister of North Korea s ‌leader, said on Thursday, warning Seoul of the most horrible and distressing situation if it continues what Pyongyang calls interference. The threats to redeploy propaganda loudspeakers, announced in Kim’s second statement within hours, risk reversing South Korean President ‌Lee ​Jae Myung’s signature gains in easing ⁠inter-Korean tensions and pushing tensions ⁠along the heavily fortified frontier to their highest level since he took office. In a statement carried by state media KCNA, Kim said she was responding to a special adviser ​to Lee on defence policy, who accused North Korea of planting mines that wounded South Korean soldiers and told ⁠it not to escalate tensions with ⁠loudspeaker broadcasts. Our new counter means will get into ​the alert for duty at all the