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North Korea Sends More ‘Trash Balloons’ Towards South Korea As Anti-Pyongyang Broadcasts Resume

North Korea launched more balloons, likely carrying rubbish, towards South Korea on Sunday. This comes two days after South Korea resumed its anti-Pyongyang propaganda broadcasts across the border in retaliation for North’s repeated balloon campaigns. According to the Associated Press, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the North Korean balloons were flying north of the South Korean capital Seoul after crossing the border. People should be aware of falling objects and alert the police and military if they see any ballons fallen on the ground, the Joint Chiefs of Staff was quoted as saying. South Korea had previously warned that it would conduct loudspeaker broadcasts more extensively and take stronger measures if the North continued provocations such as these balloon launches, re...

Retaliating To Trash Balloons, South Korea Blares Anti-North Korea Broadcasts

South Korea on Sunday broadcast anti-North Korean propaganda in border areas using large loudspeakers, in retaliation to Pyongyang's trash balloons. Seoul had earlier warned Pyongyang to stop sending balloons carrying trash into the South. Over the last couple of weeks, North Korea has reportedly sent over 1,000 balloons filled with trash and manure into South Korea, according to the Associated Press (AP). This was, North Korea said, in retaliation to leaflets criticising Pyongyang and USB drives containing K-pop and K-dramas sent into the country by South Korean activists. South Korea’s broadcasts are seen as a form of psychological warfare, also deployed before, and North Korea has accused the country of creating a "prelude to a very dangerous situation". Tensions between the war-divide...

‘New counteraction’: North Korea sends 300 more trash balloons south – Times of India

NEW DELHI: North Korea sent over 310 more balloons filled with trash including scrap paper and plastic to south across the border overnight on Sunday following Kim Jong's sister warned of "new counteraction", news agency Yonhap reported quoting Seoul's military. "The latest batch of waste-loaded balloons sent late Sunday contained scrap paper and plastic, with no toxic material detected so far," the joint chiefs of staff said adding that, as of early Monday morning, no more balloons had been seen floating in the sky.The move came in retaliation to South Korea playing loudspeaker broadcasts as a form of 'psychological warfare' against North Korea."If the ROK simultaneously carries out the leaflet scattering and loudspeaker broadcasting provocation over the border, it will undoubtedly witnes...