SEOUL — North Korea has resumed sending balloons carrying trash across the border into the South, Seoul's military said Sunday, in apparent response to the South restarting loudspeaker propaganda broadcasts.
SEOUL — North Korea has resumed sending balloons carrying trash across the border into the South, Seoul 's military said Sunday, in apparent response to the South restarting loudspeaker propaganda broadcasts.The two Korea s have engaged in a tit-for-tat balloon campaign, with the North sending nearly 2,000 trash-carrying balloons southwards since May, saying it is retaliation for propaganda balloons launched by South Korea n activists.
''We can increase the number of broadcast speakers in the frontline areas if the North continues its provocations,' a military official told Yonhap news agency on Saturday.The North's balloons have disrupted more than 100 flights carrying 10,000 passengers, a South Korean lawmaker said earlier this month.In response, Seoul has fully suspended a tension-reducing military agreement and announced in June that it was resuming propaganda broadcasts along the border.
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