North Korea responds to propaganda balloons with threats and trash
As reported by the Yonhap agency, a group of defectors from North Korea, known as Fighters for a Free North Korea (FFNK), released 10 balloons across the border, each carrying bags with up to 200,000 leaflets opposing the regime in Pyongyang. This action could further escalate tensions between the countries.
A group of South Korean activists conveyed that large balloons with propaganda leaflets flew towards North Korea, reports the AP agency.
Earlier, Pyongyang threatened that their response to such campaigns would involve sending even more balloons loaded with manure and trash across the border.
In addition to the leaflets, the bags also contained memory sticks with K-pop songs and South Korean productions, as well as one-dollar American bills.
They sent leaflets to North Korea. Kim Jong Un announces retaliation
We sent truth and love, medicines, one-dollar bills, and songs. However, the barbaric Kim Jong Un sent us excrement and trash and didn't even think of apologizing for it - declared the head of the FFNK group, Park Sang-hak, in reference to the recent provocations from the regime in Pyongyang.
The recent sending of balloons loaded with trash and excrement by North Korea has heightened tensions between the two countries. As a result, the South Korean government has fully suspended the 2018 inter-Korean military agreement to ease military tensions.
Initially, North Korea halted sending more balloons, but it has threatened to resume the action if South Korean activists send leaflets again. North Korean Vice Minister of Defense Kim Kang-il warned that in such a case, Pyongyang would send back "trash in 100 times greater quantity".
The South Korean military has already confirmed that "some of the balloons" entered the airspace of their northern neighbor.
