Seoul’s military said, ‘North Korea has sent hundreds more trash-carrying balloons toward South Korea, after Kim Jong Un’s sister warned of further reactions if the South keeps up its psychological warfare.
North Korea has sent hundreds of balloons into the South in recent weeks, consisting trash like cigarette butts and toilet paper.
This month the South Korean government suspended a 2018 tension-reducing military deal and restarted loudspeaker propaganda broadcasts along the border in response to Pyongyang’s balloons.
Kim Yo Jong, Kim’s sister and key government spokeswoman said in a statement released early Monday that South Korea would suffer a bitter embarrassment of picking up waste paper without rest and it will be its daily work.
She slammed the activists leaflets as psychological warfare and warned that unless Seoul stopped them and called off the loudspeaker broadcasts, the North would hit back.
‘If the ROK simultaneously carries out the leaflet scattering and loudspeaker broadcasting provocation over the border, it will undoubtedly witness the new counteraction of the DPRK’, she said.
Seoul’s military said the North had sent more than 300 trash-carrying balloons overnight, but that the winds had not worked in Pyongyang’s favour.
‘Although they launched over 310 balloons many of them flew toward North Korea’, said the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He also added that over 50 had landed in the South so far, with more expected.
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