This file photograph, taken June 10, 2024, reveals a trash-carrying balloon despatched by North Korea in a rice paddy in Incheon, simply west of Seoul. (Yonhap)
North Korea once more launched balloons doubtless carrying trash towards South Korea on Wednesday, the Joint Chiefs of Employees mentioned, marking a resumption of its trash-balloon marketing campaign after a close to monthlong halt.
The JCS mentioned an unspecified variety of balloons might journey to northern Gyeonggi Province, simply north of Seoul, and suggested the general public to not contact fallen balloons and report them to the army or police.
Since late Could, the North has launched 1000’s of balloons carrying trash in a tit-for-tat transfer towards anti-Pyongyang leaflets despatched by North Korean defectors and activists in South Korea. Pyongyang final launched such balloons on Aug. 10.
In response to the North’s marketing campaign, South Korea’s army started blasting anti-Pyongyang propaganda broadcasts every day by loudspeakers on the border in July.
North Korea has bristled towards the anti-Pyongyang leaflet and loudspeaker campaigns on fears that an inflow of out of doors info might pose a menace to the Kim Jong-un regime.
Although North Korea had but to state its intent behind the newest launching of balloons, it was doubtless in response to anti-Pyongyang leaflets.
“I imagine civic teams have been quietly sending leaflets just lately,” an official with Seoul’s unification ministry mentioned.
