About 20-50 balloons an hour incoming, warns Seoul’s military, urging public to report but don’t touch
North Korea started launching balloons last week loaded with waste, like this one that was caught on electric cables in Muju, South Korea.North Korea started launching balloons last week loaded with waste, like this one that was caught on electric cables in Muju, South Korea.
The balloons were landing in South Korea’s northern provinces, including the capital, Seoul, and the adjacent area of Gyeonggi, which collectively are home to nearly half of the South’s population.The South Korean defence minister, Shin Won-sik, on Saturday described it as “unimaginably petty and low-grade behaviour”, with Seoul warning of strong countermeasures unless Pyongyang stopped such “irrational” provocations.
Pyongyang defended its release of the balloons earlier this week, saying the “sincere gifts” were retaliation for the balloons sent into North Korea with propaganda against leader Kim Jong-un. The South Korean parliament passed a law in 2020 criminalising the act of sending leaflets to the North, but the activists did not stop.
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