2024-06-04 16:39:44
North Korea sees it as punishment for its neighbor: the regime has as soon as once more despatched a whole bunch of rubbish balloons to South Korea. Seoul is warning its residents.
North Korea has as soon as once more despatched round a whole bunch of balloons stuffed with rubbish throughout the border into the South. Round 600 balloons had been noticed, South Korea’s Basic Employees introduced on Sunday. The balloons contained all the pieces from cigarette butts to plastic, and round 20 to 50 of the garbage-filled balloons had been within the air each hour. Safety forces would gather them after touchdown.
Pyongyang had already began an analogous marketing campaign just a few days in the past. On Wednesday, North Korea despatched balloons stuffed with rubbish, bathroom paper and animal excrement in the direction of South Korea. South Korean media printed footage exhibiting white balloons with rubbish luggage stuffed with rubbish and apparently additionally feces. Learn extra about it right here.
North Korea had beforehand introduced that it could cowl South Korean border areas with “piles of paper trash and grime” to punish Seoul for earlier propaganda campaigns. Within the South Korean capital, residents had been warned to not contact the balloons. They need to as an alternative be reported and handed over to the navy. Learn extra in regards to the warning right here.
South Korean activists sometimes ship balloons throughout the border containing leaflets directed in opposition to North Korea’s ruler Kim Jong-un and cash for the inhabitants within the impoverished north. Pyongyang has repeatedly reacted angrily and has despatched comparable propaganda balloons throughout the border previously.
Relations between North and South Korea are at present at a low level. North Korean chief Kim had introduced that he would increase the event of weapons – together with the event of tactical nuclear weapons. In response, South Korea and the USA elevated their protection cooperation.