North Korea is pressing ahead with measures to disband its inter-Korean organizations, apparently stopping a radio station previously used to send encrypted messages to its spies in South Korea.

As of Saturday, the North appears to have stopped broadcasting the state-run Pyongyang Radio and cut off access to its website. …

Pyongyang Radio is known for broadcasting a series of mysterious numbers, presumed to be coded messages, giving directions to its agents operating in South Korea.

The North resumed such broadcasts in 2016 after suspending them in 2000, when the two Koreas held their first historic summit.

[That’s certainly curious. If Kim was planning some offensive action, one would expect such traffic to intensify rather than stop. Maybe Kim thinks that Seoul has broken the codes, or perhaps the effort has been moved to more modern communications technology. Or maybe Kim’s hoping for an opening with the South? — Ed]