Relations between the two Koreas are at one of their lowest points in years.
Activists in the South have sent dozens of balloons bearing K-pop and anti-Kim Jong Un propaganda northwards in recent weeks.
The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un later said that Seoul could expect a “new response” and warned of a “very dangerous situation”, Yonhap new agency reported, citing the North’s state-run KCNA. The president’s office had earlier confirmed the move, describing it as “corresponding measures” for the more than 300 trash-filled balloons Pyongyang sent across the border in a fresh blitz that started on June 8.
“North Korea is making another low-class provocation with trash balloons against our civilian areas,” Seoul mayor Oh Se-hoon wrote in a Facebook post. “There is a high possibility the resuming of speakers could lead to an armed conflict,” Dr Cheong Seong-chang, director of the Korean peninsula strategy at Sejong Institute, told AFP.
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