North Korea has despatched a whole lot extra trash-filled balloons throughout the border in a recent blitz, Seoul’s army stated Sunday, because the tit-for-tat balloon barrages between the 2 neighbours accelerates.
Since the newest blitz started late Saturday, Pyongyang has despatched an estimated 330 balloons carrying luggage of trash into the South, Seoul’s army stated.
“So far, about 80 have fallen in our area and nothing is currently being identified in the air,” the Joint Chiefs of Staff stated Sunday in a press release.
“Our analysis shows there were no substances that were harmful to safety,” it stated, including that the newest batch of balloons contained waste paper and plastic.
The Seoul metropolis authorities, in addition to officers in surrounding Gyeonggi province, despatched out a textual content alert to residents on Saturday, warning in regards to the balloons.
“North Korea is making another low-class provocation with trash balloons against our civilian areas,” wrote Seoul mayor Oh Se-hoon in a Facebook publish.
In latest weeks, activists within the South have floated dozens of balloons bearing Ok-pop, greenback payments and anti-Kim Jong Un propaganda northwards, infuriating Pyongyang which has retaliated in variety.
Pyongyang despatched almost a thousand balloons carrying cigarette butts and bathroom paper throughout the border early June, earlier than calling off its marketing campaign, nevertheless it restarted Saturday in response to new launches final week by the activists, which Seoul’s authorities is legally powerless to stop.
A South Korean group referred to as “Fighters for Free North Korea” stated it had despatched 10 balloons with thumb drives containing Ok-pop music and 200,000 leaflets condemning Kim’s rule this week.
Another group of North Korean defectors additionally stated that they had despatched 10 balloons on Friday with 100 radios, 200,000 anti-Pyongyang leaflets, and thumb drives containing a speech by South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol.
In response to the launches, President Yoon totally suspended a 2018 tension-reducing army cope with the North. The transfer will permit the South to renew stay fireplace drills and restart loudspeaker propaganda campaigns alongside the border.
Seoul’s National Security Council was assembly Sunday to debate the newest balloon launches.
Source: www.anews.com.tr