North Korea launches garbage balloons into South Korea again
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Yonhap reported this on June 1 with reference to the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Korea.
According to the military, at around 8:45 p.m., about a dozen balloons crossed the demarcation line between South and North Korea, after which most of them flew into Gyeonggi province, which surrounds Seoul.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff advised citizens not to approach fallen balloons and to report them to authorities.
This is the second such incident in a week. According to Yonhap, on May 28 and 29, North Korea launched about 260 balloons towards South Korea.
North and South Korea have used balloons in propaganda campaigns since the Korean War in the 1950s, the BBC writes.
Now activists and North Korean defectors living in South Korea are sending anti-government leaflets, money, as well as banned newspapers and books to the DPRK in this way. North Korea has repeatedly called for an end to such actions, and on May 26, North Korean authorities threatened retaliatory measures. After firing bullets filled with debris, North Korean leader Kim Yo Jong’s sister, an influential figure in communist Korea, compared the country’s actions to “freedom of expression” and the contents of the South Korean leaflets to “political slop.”
Source: Racurs
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