Some balloons sent by Pyongyang were equipped with timed poppers that could cause fires.
SEOUL - North Korea has sent about 500 balloons laden with trash into South Korea’s airspace over the past 24 hours, said officials in the South on July 25, disrupting flights and igniting a fire on the roof of a residential building.
carrying items such as anti-Pyongyang leaflets, medicine, money and USB sticks loaded with K-pop videos and dramas.on the evening of July 24 for two hours, said an official at the Korea Airports Corporation. In Gyeonggi, a province near Seoul, a balloon caught fire on top of a residential building. Firefighters extinguished the blaze, said an official at the Gyeonggi Northern Fire and Disaster Headquarters.
“A timer is attached to the trash balloons, which has the effect of popping the balloons and spreading the trash after a certain period of time has passed,” Mr Lee Sung-jun, a spokesman for South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff, told a briefing.
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