Hundreds of balloons floated over the border of North Korea into South Korea, filled with trash, batteries and propaganda leaflets. South Korea encouraged people to report the balloons to officials.
North Korea has sent about 500 balloons laden with trash into South Korea’s air space over the past 24 hours, officials in the South said on Thursday, disrupting flights and igniting a fire on the roof of a residential building. The balloons are part of an ongoing propaganda campaign by Pyongyang against North Korean defectors and activists in the South, who regularly send balloons carrying items such as anti-Pyongyang leaflets medicine, money and USB sticks loaded with K-pop videos and dramas.
Balloons have affected traffic at South Korea’s main international airport, Incheon, several times in recent weeks. In Gyeonggi, a province near Seoul, a balloon caught fire on top of a residential building. Fire fighters extinguished the blaze, an official at the Gyeonggi Northern Fire and Disaster Headquarters said. South Korea’s military said some trash balloons were equipped with timed poppers that could cause fires.
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