Since May, the North has been floating thousands of balloons with bags of trash attached.
A balloon carrying an object is seen after it landed in a rice field in Seonwon-myeon, Ganghwa County, Incheon, on June 10.
“As we warned several times, the military will carry out loudspeaker broadcasts in full scale and on all fronts starting 1pm today,” the South’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said, calling the North’s launch of balloons vulgar and shameful., with the North sending nearly 2,000 trash-filled balloons southwards since May, saying it is retaliation for propaganda balloons launched by South Korean activists.
Blaring propaganda, world news and K-pop music, South Korea’s broadcasts are considered by military officials and activists as an effective form of psychological warfare. In addition to anti-Kim Jong Un leaflets sent from the South, isolated North Korea is extremely sensitive about its people gaining access to South Korean pop culture products, with a recent South Korean government report pointing to a 2022 case where a man was executed for possession of content from the South.
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