North Korea Sends More Trash Balloons to South Korea

Published on June 10, 2024

North Korea sent hundreds more balloons carrying bags of trash toward South Korea over the weekend after South Korea resumed broadcasting propaganda via loudspeakers near their shared international border. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said on June 10 that it detected some 310 balloons launched by North Korea across the inter-Korean border on May 9, and confirming that they were carrying scrap paper and plastic. Previous balloons reportedly carried trash, manure, waste batteries, cigarette butts, and soiled diapers. South Korean residents have been advised not to touch any objects they find attached to the balloons. The latest batch were released after Kim Yo Jong, the sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, warned of “new counteraction” against South Korea’s resumption of loudspeaker broadcasts....

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