Korean Peninsula|According to the South Korean authorities, the garbage bags tied to the balloons sent by North Korea have contained dirty waste. According to the news agency, it is feces.
From North Korea don’t seem to run out of ways when it aims to disrupt the way of life in its border neighbor South Korea.
In recent days, balloons carrying black garbage bags have flown across the border from North Korea to South Korea. British Broadcasting Corporation the BBC according to this week, at least two hundred balloons have already arrived over the border.
According to the South Korean authorities, the garbage bags tied to the balloons contained “dirty waste”. The South Korean news agency Yonhap has specified the contents of the sacks, saying that some of them would have contained excrement “based on the dark color and smell”.
According to the BBC, South Korea’s defense minister Shin Won-sik has stated that the sending of balloons manifests “incomprehensibly petty and inferior behavior”. The country’s armed forces have advised citizens not to touch the balls and garbage bags and leave them to the authorities.
North Korea has so far not officially commented on his motive for sending the balloons. The country’s deputy defense minister Kim Kang Il however, according to the BBC, has hinted that the purpose of the operation would be to show South Korea “how much effort it takes to remove the balloon debris”.
Sending goods by air across the border itself has long traditions on both sides of the Korean peninsula.
During the Korean War, the United States and its allies dropped up to 2.5 billion leaflets on North Korea. The North Koreans tried to respond to the propaganda by sending about 30 million leaflets to South Korea.
Since then, balloons sent from South Korea to North Korea have been stuffed with, for example, Western movies, religious literature, porn, money, tobacco and food.
A group of activists who defected to South Korea three years ago sent balloons across the border to his former homelandwhich had, among other things, books and money inside
South Korea in December 2020, the law banned the use of balloons sent for propaganda purposes between countries. In the background were the angry protests from North Korea.
The country has now stated that the balloons sent by North Korea not only “violate international law” but also “threaten national security”.
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