North Korea has dropped 600 balloons filled with garbage, including cigarettes, plastic, scraps of cloth and waste paper, into neighboring South Korea.
A few days ago, a similar move was made by North Korea. In total, North Korea has so far sent 800 garbage balloons to South Korea.
South Korean President Yoon Suk-yol’s office called the balloons a “dirty provocation” unthinkable by any ordinary country. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement that ‘the military is monitoring the location from which the balloons were released, conducting aerial surveillance to track and collect them. ‘.
South Korean citizens have been warned to be wary of objects falling from the sky and not to touch suspicious objects coming from North Korea and instead report them to military or police offices.
So far, there have been no reports of any loss of life or property due to the balloons. Authorities did not find anything ‘dangerous’ in the garbage bags hanging below the balloons. In Seoul, the city government sent messages to people via mobile phones. In which it was stated that unknown objects coming from North Korea were detected in the air near the city and the military is dealing with them.
North Korea has increased its provocations in recent days, unsuccessfully attempting to send a second spy satellite into space and testing a short-range missile, and has shown its ability to launch a pre-emptive strike on South Korea. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s sister, Kim Yo-jong, confirmed in a statement that North Korea had launched the balloons to carry out her country’s latest threat to scatter trash and garbage in South Korea. send for
This action was taken in response to South Korea dropping pamphlets in North Korea, they indicated that these balloons could be an appropriate response to North Korea dropping pamphlets and dropped a dozen percent more trash in response to the pamphlets. will go
South Korea’s Unification Ministry said in a statement that “North Korea must stop provocations in the form of missile tests and other actions, otherwise it will face ‘unbearable’ consequences,” but the statement did not elaborate on those consequences. went
