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EOUL South Korea –Trash-carrying balloons sent by North Korea hit the South Korean presidential compound Wednesday, security officials told AFP, prompting Seoul to mobilize chemical response teams in the escalating tit-for-tat propaganda war.
“After investigation, results have confirmed that there were no danger or contamination of the object,” it said. According to the Yonhap news agency, the presidential office had been monitoring the balloon in real time, and was aware of exactly where it would land. “It is a security problem since there are different defence facilities for the presidential complex,” said Park Won-gon, a professor at Ewha Women’s University.
In response to the waves of balloons, South Korea on Sunday resumed “full scale” propaganda broadcasts from loudspeakers along the border, directed at North.
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