Brian McDonald
North Korea launched more garbage-carrying balloons towards the South after a similar campaign at the beginning of the weekaccording to South Korea’s military, in what Pyongyang calls retaliation for activists spreading anti-North Korean leaflets across the border.
South Korea’s Defense Ministry did not immediately comment on the number of balloons it detected or how many landed in South Korea. The military advised people to be careful about falling objects and not to touch objects suspected of being from South Korea. North, but rather report them to the military or police offices.
In Seoul, the capital, the city government sent text alerts saying that unidentified objects suspected of having come from North Korea were being detected in the skies near the city and that the military was responding to them.
The North’s balloon launches added to a recent series of provocative measures, which include its failed spy satellite launch hey one barrage of short-range missile launches this week that the North said was intended to demonstrate its ability to preemptively attack the South.
South Korean Ministry of Defense via AP
South Korea’s military sent rapid chemical response and explosive ordnance disposal teams to recover the wreckage of about 260 North Korean balloons that were found in various parts of the country between Tuesday night and Wednesday. The military said the balloons carried various types of trash and manure, but did not contain dangerous substances such as chemical, biological or radioactive materials.
In a statement on Wednesday, Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Unconfirmed that the North sent the balloons to carry out its country’s recent threat to “spread heaps of trash and filth” in South Korea, in response to leafleting campaigns by South Korean activists.
She hinted that balloons could become the North’s standard response to leaflet distribution in the future, saying the North would respond by “spreading trash dozens of times more than what is being spread to us.”
Jeonbuk Fire Headquarters via AP
North Korea is extremely sensitive to any external attempt to undermine Kim Jong Un absolute control over the country’s 26 million inhabitants, most of whom have little access to foreign news.
In 2020, North Korea exploded a Empty liaison office built by South Korea on its territory after a furious response to South Korean civilian leaflet campaigns. In 2014, North Korea fired at propaganda balloons flying toward its territory and South Korea returned fire, although there were no casualties.
In 2022, North Korea even suggested that balloons coming from South Korea had caused an outbreak of COVID-19 in the isolated nation, a highly questionable claim that appeared to be an attempt to blame the South for worsening inter-Korean relations.
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