The South Korean military says North Korea has used balloons to send large amounts of waste across its heavily fortified border into South Korea. As a result, some balloons even had bags hanging from them that may have contained feces. About 260 such balloons have been discovered so far.
Last Sunday, North Korea, which is authoritarianly ruled by Kim Jong-un, threatened to send “heaps of waste paper and dirt” across the border regions. South Korea will notice “how much effort it takes to eliminate everything,” according to a statement from the vice minister of defense. The measure is a response to the sending of leaflets and waste from South Korea.
Propaganda campaigns again and again
For years, organizations of North Korean refugees in South Korea repeatedly conducted propaganda campaigns at the border, sending out large gas balloons carrying leaflets calling, among other things, for the overthrow of the leadership in Pyongyang. North Korea has repeatedly reacted angrily to such actions. The leaflet campaigns are controversial in South Korea. North Korea itself has also sent propaganda leaflets across the border to South Korea in the past.
Under the previous liberal South Korean government, a law came into effect in 2021 banning the sending of leaflets and other items along the military demarcation line between the two countries. The Constitutional Court lifted the ban last year, arguing that it disproportionately restricts freedom of expression.
Source: Krone
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