South Korea has resumed anti-North Korean propaganda loudspeaker broadcasts in retaliation for the North sending over 1,000 balloons filled with rubbish.
has resumed anti- North Korea n propaganda loudspeaker broadcasts in retaliation for the North sending over 1,000 balloons filled with rubbish and manure in recent weeks.
“I sternly warn Seoul to immediately cease its dangerous activities that would further provoke a crisis of confrontation,” Kim Yo Jong said in a statement published by North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency.launching what appeared to be more rubbish-carrying balloons on Sunday night. At an emergency meeting led by national security director Chang Ho-jin, South Korean officials berated Pyongyang for attempting to cause “anxiety and disruption” by sending the balloons to the South and stressed that North Korea would be “solely responsible” for any future escalation of tensions.
South Korean soldiers wearing protective gears check the rubbish from a balloon presumably sent by North Korea.In 2015, when South Korea restarted loudspeaker broadcasts for the first time in 11 years, North Korea fired artillery rounds across the border, prompting South Korea to return fire, according to South Korean officials. No casualties were reported.
In her statement, Kim Yo Jong claimed the North used about 1,400 balloons to drop 7.5 tons of trash from Saturday night to Sunday morning. She also complained that anti-North Korean propaganda leaflets flown from South Korean activists had been discovered in border areas in recent days. In North Korea’s previous two rounds of balloon activities, South Korean authorities discovered about 1,000 balloons that were tied to vinyl bags containing manure, cigarette butts, scraps of cloth, waste batteries and waste paper.
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