The incident is the second in five months that Pyongyang has used Cold War-style psychological tactics to cover parts of Seoul in rubbish.
Another garbage-filled balloon has floated from North Korea and dropped into the South Korea n presidential compound in Seoul. South Korea 's national security director this year promised to take "unbearable" retaliatory steps to prevent it happening again. North Korea has reignited its Cold War-style psychological campaign by floating another garbage-filled balloon onto the presidential compound in Seoul, according to South Korea n officials.
It was not immediately known whether President Yoon Suk Yeol was at the compound at the time of the balloon landing. Those balloons contained cigarette butts, scraps of cloth, wastepaper and vinyl, but no dangerous substances.
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