A South Korean activists’ group has flown large balloons carrying propaganda leaflets toward North Korea, which has threatened to send more balloons with manure and trash across the border in response.
An officer wearing protective gear collects the trash from a balloon presumably sent by North Korea , in Siheung, South Korea, Sunday, June 2, 2024. South Korea said Sunday it’ll take strong retaliatory steps against North Korea over its launch of trash-carrying balloons and other provocations on South Korea. In this photo provided by the South Korea Defense Ministry, U.S.
The South Korean civilian group, led by North Korean defector Park Sang-hak, said it floated 10 balloons tied to 200,000 anti-Pyongyang leaflets, USB sticks with K-pop songs and South Korean dramas and one-dollar U.S. bills from a border town on Thursday. Park’s long-running balloon activities offend North Korea, which is extremely wary of any outside attempt to undermine Kim Jong Un’s rule.on South Korea last week, Kim’s powerful sister, Kim Yo Jong, said the campaign was meant to carry out the North’s threat to conduct a tit-for-tat action against a South Korean leafleting. Observers say North Korea was referring to Park’s previous balloon activities in May.North Korea’s trash balloons deepen tensions with the South.
North Korea’s balloon campaign was seen as an attempt to cause a divide in South Korea over its conservative government’s tough policy on the North. South Korean officials say they have no legal grounds to ban private citizens from flying balloons to North Korea, afterIn reaction to the North’s balloon campaign, South Korea fully suspended a 2018 tension-easing agreement with North Korea.
Since 2022, North Korea has aggressively intensified its weapons tests in what analysts call an attempt to expand its nuclear arsenal and wrest greater outside concessions when diplomacy resumes with the United States.
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