North Korea sends new balloons filled with garbage

In two waves last week, the North Korean regime had hundreds of balloons weighed down with bags full of trash fly towards its southern neighbor.

North Korea once again sent balloons filled with rubbish to South Korea on Saturday June 8, the South Korean army said. The heads of the Joint Chiefs of Staff advise the public not to touch them and to report spotted aerostats to the authorities. A few hours earlier, the South Korean army had announced that it was on alert for the possible arrival of such balloons, which it then planned for Sunday.

In two waves last week, North Korea flew hundreds of balloons to its southern neighbor weighted with bags full of various rubbish, “sincere gifts” which aimed, according to her, to respond to the sending towards her territory of balloons loaded with propaganda by South Korean activists. On Sunday June 2, Pyongyang announced that it would stop these actions.

But, a few days later, an organization of South Korean activists, “Fighters for a Free North Korea”said he had sent ten balloons to the north of the peninsula carrying 200,000 leaflets against North Korean number one Kim Jong Un and USB keys containing South Korean K-pop music.

Another group, made up of North Korean defectors, said it also sent ten balloons with 200,000 anti-Pyongyang leaflets on Friday, as well as 100 radios and USB sticks containing a speech by South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol. Jang Se-yul, the leader of these defectors, assured Saturday that his organization would not stop its campaign, “whether Kim Jong Un sends waste-carrying balloons again or not”. North Korea has warned that it will respond with “waste paper and trash” in quantities 100 times greater if it sends South Korean leaflets.