Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — North Korea has adopted a new strategy to contend with its southern neighbor: sending floating bags of trash containing “filth” across the border, carried by massive balloons.
North Korea has adopted a new strategy to contend with its southern neighbor: sending floating bags of trash containing “filth” across the border.North Korea is putting trash in balloons and floating them across to the border to South Korea. South Korea took photos of these massive balloons and bags filled with trash.North Korea has adopted a new strategy to contend with its southern neighbor: sending floating bags of trash containing “filth” across the border, carried by massive balloons.
The balloons so far contain “filth and garbage” and are being analyzed by government agencies, said the JCS, adding that the military was cooperating with the United Nations Command. The move, according to North Korean state media KCNA, was to retaliate against South Korean activists who often send materials to the North – including propaganda leaflets, food, medicine, radios and USB sticks containing South Korean news and television dramas, allthrough balloons, drones, and bottles floating down the cross-border river – even after South Korea’s parliament banned such actions in 2020.
He accused South Korea of using “psychological warfare” by scattering “various dirty things” near border areas, declaring that the North would take “tit for tat action.” Kim also decried joint US-South Korea military drills, which have increased in recent years as tensions have risen in the Korean peninsula.
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