This file photograph, supplied by the Gangwon Province fireplace companies, reveals a bundle of trash presumed to be despatched by North Korea in Chuncheon, 75 kilometers northeast of Seoul, on Sept. 7. (Yonhap)
North Korea has launched balloons probably carrying trash towards South Korea, the South’s army mentioned Wednesday.
“North Korea is as soon as once more launching balloons probably carrying trash directed in direction of the South,” the Joint Chiefs of Workers mentioned, noting the balloons might journey towards the northern a part of Gyeonggi Province, and the Seoul metropolitan space.
Residents are suggested to not contact any balloons if discovered. As a substitute, the JCS urged folks to report sightings to the closest army unit or police station.
The most recent launches got here after the North fired a number of short-range ballistic missiles in a northeastern route early Wednesday, including to already escalated cross-border tensions from the continued trash balloon marketing campaign.
This marks the twenty first occasion of North Korea sending such balloons. Since late Could, the North has launched 1000’s of trash-carrying balloons towards the South as a retaliatory measure towards anti-Pyongyang leaflets despatched throughout the border by defectors from North Korea and activists based mostly in South Korea.
