The South Korean Army indicated this Saturday (06/08/2024) that it was on alert for the possible arrival of more balloons with garbage from North Korea on Sunday.
Last week, North Korea sent hundreds of balloons filled with garbage that included cigarette butts and what appeared to be dung, among others, to its southern neighbor, in retaliation for the balloons that South Korean activists send to the North with propaganda against the South leader. Kim Yong Un.
Pyongyang announced last Sunday that it would stop sending balloons, but days later a South Korean group called “Fighters for a Free North Korea” claimed to have sent 10 balloons with K-pop music and 200,000 leaflets against Kim.
“Watch closely”
The South Korean Army is “closely monitoring” the situation, given “the possibility of more balloons carrying garbage descending around tomorrow,” its spokesman told AFP on Saturday.
North Korea had warned it would respond with a hundred times the amount of “waste paper and garbage” if more South Korean leaflets were sent.
In response to the balloons, South Korea on Tuesday completely suspended a military agreement it signed with the North in 2018 aimed at reducing tensions.
Seoul authorities condemned the launch of North Korean balloons, calling the action “irrational” and “low class,” and threatened countermeasures that, they said, could be “unbearable” for Pyongyang.
ct (afp, ap)
