The airborne garbage delivery was the latest, and perhaps most humiliating, episode in the ongoing trash-offensive.
Officers wearing protective gear collect the trash from a balloon presumably sent by North Korea on Wednesday in Seoul.
But on Wednesday, the rhetorical rubbish landed on the presidential compound in Seoul, delivering what was perhaps the most humiliating of the unwanted loads from the North so far and raising security concerns and questions about whether the situation would devolve. Wednesday’s dump was the 10th such delivery since the balloon launches began at the end of May, according toassembled by the Beyond Parallel project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington-based think tank. Among the items deposited across South Korea, according to the project: animal and human feces, batteries, cigarette butts, toilet paper, and clothes.
“Imagine if the balloons were filled with unidentified white powder rather than trash?” he wrote in an email to The Washington Post. Kim Jong-nam, the half brother of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, was assassinated with the nerve agent VX at an airport in Malaysia in 2017, police there
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