North Korea is blasting screams, gunfire, bombs, and chilling music at the border to torment South Koreans.
North Korea has been blasting a cacophony of disturbing sounds at high volumes along its border with South Korea to torment residents.
Now, she is kept awake every night by what sounds like the soundtrack of a low-budget horror movie at top volume. The northern point of Ganghwa — an island in the Han river estuary on the Yellow Sea — is only about two kilometres from North Korea. "Almost every regime has used noise torture and sleep deprivation," Rory Cox, a historian at University of St Andrews, told AFP.Exposure to noise levels above 60 decibels at night increases the risk of sleep disorders, experts said, but AFP tracked levels of up to 80 decibels late at night on Ganghwa during a recent trip.She added that prolonged sleep deprivation due to the noise has also led to anxiety, eye pain, facial tremors and drowsiness.
The two Koreas remain technically at war since the 1950 to 1953 conflict ended in an armistice, not a peace treaty.North Korean leader Kim Jong Un this year declared Seoul his "principal enemy" and has ramped up weapons testing, and built closer military ties with Russia.
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