North Korea’s Normal Workers Division (GSD) lately ordered large-scale “enemy assault drills” utilizing trash-laden balloons. Since Might, the nation has performed 22 launches of balloons carrying waste paper, plastic, and different particles.
In line with a army supply lately, the GSD’s Fight Coaching Bureau instructed the Second Corps’ Operations Division to arrange to launch these balloons into particular areas, coordinating the assaults with GPS coordinates and airflow calculations.
Accordingly, the frontline models of the Second Corps have been planning numerous enemy assault workout routines by exactly calculating the coordinates and air stream to launch the balloons carrying rubbish at particular areas in South Korea and arbitrarily adjusting the launch occasions based mostly on the wind route and pace.
“The most recent order is totally different from the one issued by the Army-Authorities Steering Division in late June, which referred to as for stepping up tactical workout routines to assault South Korea as a substitute of easy balloon launches,” the supply stated. “The intention is to strengthen the military’s means to assault rear areas by infiltrating balloons by numerous methods to trigger continual fatigue and chaos within the puppet South Korean army.”
In North Korea, “enemy assault drills” check with workout routines to apply harassment techniques that create chaos in rear areas and depress enemy morale by psychological warfare, espionage and propaganda.
In brief, North Korea goals to create continual morale issues within the South Korean army and fatigue and unease within the South Korean society by including balloon launches to the record of enemy assault workout routines and systematizing them as army drills.
Actually, North Korea is drawing up plans for repeated and random launches of garbage-laden balloons as an “operation to harass the South endlessly.”
“The GSD included sensible content material in its order, calling for strengthening repeated precision infiltration drills with balloons based mostly on correct calculations,” the supply stated. “The order additionally stated you will need to ship balloons with timed explosives into South Korea sooner or later by calculating GPS coordinates and air stream whereas avoiding the air protection community of the South Korean army.”
The supply stated the GSD “plans to increase the quantity and scope of rubbish assortment for balloons by making the household steerage departments of frontline models answerable for rubbish assortment and assigning troopers’ households to gather rubbish, whereas ordering troopers’ households all through the military to take part as effectively.”
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