South Korea's defence minister Shin Won-sik called it ‘unimaginably petty and low-grade behaviour’.
Pyongyang says the dirty protest is retaliation against propaganda leaflets flown over from activists in Seoul North Korea has floated another volley of ‘filth’-filled balloons over the border into the South. Pyongyang says the dirty protest is retaliation against propaganda leaflets flown over from activists in Seoul. South Korea’s defence minister Shin Won-sik called it ‘unimaginably petty and low-grade behaviour’ while the public was warned not to touch the bags.
The Yonhap news agency said officials found about 90 that dropped paper, plastic rubbish, and cigarette butts in areas in the capital and nearby Gyeonggi province. In a statement on Wednesday, Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un, confirmed that the North sent the balloons to make good on her country’s recent threat to ‘scatter mounds of wastepaper and filth’ in South Korea in response to leafleting campaigns by South Korean activists.
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