North Korea flies more balloons across border with South – DW – 07/21/2024
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South Korea is boosting its propaganda loudspeaker broadcasts at the border after North Korea floated more trash balloons southwards.

South Korea is boosting its propaganda loudspeaker broadcasts at the border after North Korea floated more trash balloons southwards.

North Korea has resumed sending balloons carrying trash toward South Korea, Seoul’s military said on Sunday.

The military added that South Korea was stepping up its anti-Pyongyang propaganda broadcasts across the heavily guarded border between the two Koreas.

“The North is launching another batch of rubbish-carrying balloons,” the South’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said in a statement, advising people not to touch the objects and report them to nearby military or police authorities.

    • Ferrous@lemmy.mlEnglish
      16·
      2 months ago

      Maybe because they’re littering e-waste at a massive scale?

      • KevonLooney@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        Well that’s just not true. Anything electronic landing broken in NK would be scavenged for parts in 5 minutes. People in the countryside there don’t have access to new things like those in Pyongyang.

        They probably turn in the balloons to the local authority after they take what they want. Then the local police take some and send it to the main headquarters. I’m sure it’s like drug shipments that start out at 10 kilos and end up at 2 kilos by the time it reaches the evidence locker.