North Korea Balloons carrying more trash launched south A similar campaign was launched earlier this weekPyongyang described it as retaliation for activists who flew anti-North Korea leaflets across the border, according to South Korea’s military.
South Korea’s Defense Ministry has not yet commented on how many balloons it has seen or how many have landed in South Korea. The military has advised people to be wary of falling objects and not touch objects suspected to have come from North Korea, but to report them to military or police stations.
In the capital, Seoul, the city government sent a message warning that unidentified objects suspected to have come from North Korea had been spotted in the sky near the city and that the military was taking action against them.
The balloon release follows a number of recent provocative moves by North Korea, including Spy satellite launch fails and and one launch of short-range missiles North Korea said the attack it carried out this week was aimed at demonstrating its ability to preemptively strike South Korea.
South Korea Defense Ministry via AP
South Korea’s military sent chemical rapid reaction and explosive clearance teams to recover the debris of about 260 North Korean balloons found in various parts of the country from Tuesday night to Wednesday. The military said the balloons contained various types of garbage and manure, but no hazardous materials such as chemical, biological or radioactive substances.
In a statement on Wednesday, Kim Yo Jong said, The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Unconfirmed that North Korea sent the balloons to carry out its recent threat to “spread heaps of garbage and filth” in South Korea in response to a leaflet distribution campaign by South Korean activists.
He hinted that balloons could become the standard response to North Korea distributing leaflets, saying North Korea would respond by spreading “dozens of times more garbage than we do here.”
From Jeonbuk Fire Headquarters via AP
North Korea is extremely sensitive to any outside efforts. Kim Jong Un Complete control over the country’s 26 million people, most of whom have little access to foreign news.
In 2020, North Korea detonated a bomb. The South Korean-built liaison office lay vacant North Korea has attacked its territory after South Korea reacted violently to a campaign to distribute leaflets to its citizens. In 2014, North Korea shot at propaganda balloons flying toward its territory and South Korea fired back, though there were no casualties.
In 2022, North Korea even said that the balloons were launched from South Korea caused the COVID-19 outbreak This is a highly questionable claim in the isolated nation, which appears to be an attempt to blame South Korea for the deterioration of inter-Korean relations.
