Article: North Korea faults United States; South Korea draws praise in final propaganda message

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - With warm words for South Korea, North Korean loudspeakers blared a final propaganda message that reverberated across the demilitarized zone just before midnight: "We, from one blood and using one language, can no longer live separated."

The last broadcast in decades of strident exchanges included harsh words for the United States - "the root cause of suffering and misfortune that our people are experiencing."

The two Koreas agreed to halt the broadcasts beginning Tuesday, the fourth anniversary of a summit between their leaders. The war of words along the heavily fortified no-man's-land dates to the 1950-53 Korean War that devastated the peninsula and left tens of ...

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