North Korea’s latest balloon launches came days after South Korea boosted its broadcasts of K-pop songs and propaganda messages across the two countries' heavily armed border.
Officers wearing protective gear collect the trash from a balloon presumably sent by North Korea , Wednesday, July 24, 2024, in Seoul, South Korea .fell on the South Korea n presidential compound on Wednesday, raising worries about the security of key South Korea n facilities during North Korea n provocations.
“Some of launched by North Korea landed on the presidential compound by coincidence. North Korea has no technology to precisely drop balloons at certain targets,” said Jung Chang Wook, head of the Korea Defense Study Forum think tank in Seoul. The more than 2,000 North Korean balloons discovered in South Korea in the past weeks carried wastepaper, scraps of cloth, cigarette butts and even manure. North Korea has said it was responding to South Korean activists who have scattered political leaflets across the border via their own balloons.South Korean army soldiers wearing protective gear checks the debreis from a balloon presumably sent by North Korea, Wednesday, July 24, 2024, in Seoul, South Korea.
South Korea said Sunday it was ramping up its anti-North Korean propaganda broadcasts from loudspeakers at all major sites along the land border because the North was continuing its launches of trash-carrying balloons. South Korea restarted its loudspeaker broadcasts last Thursday for the first time in about 40 days in retaliation for North Korea’s previous balloon activities.
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