Pyongyang Sends Another 600 Trash Balloons Into South Korea, Seoul To Resume Blaring Propaganda Over Border With Loudspeakers

Seoul intends to resume deploying loudspeakers at its border with the North and blare propaganda as a response to the hundreds of feces and trash-filed balloons sent over the border into the South.

SEOUL - U.S. and South Korean officials have denounced the latest move by North Korea to send 600 more balloons filled with trash into South Korea, just days after Pyongyang sent over 260 trash and feces-filled balloons into the country.

Trash-filled balloons sent to South Korea. Image: South Korean military

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South Korean media reported that South Korea's presidential National Security Council (NSC) has the intention to "resume" its propaganda campaign in which it will deploy loudspeakers at its border with the North and blare propaganda as a response to the 600 balloons sent over the border into the South.

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The NCS will meet on Sunday afternoon, with National Security Adviser Jang Ho-jin presiding over the meeting, according to South Korean news agency Yonhap, which reports it will be the first time an NSC meeting will be held in response to the "balloon provocation". 

"Loudspeakers against North Korea are ready to resume at any time," the news agency cited a source within the South Korean military as saying.

The latest balloons to enter South Korea from the North were carrying various pieces of trash, including cigarette butts, plastic bags, and pieces of paper, just like the first balloons that were sent over, according to the South Korean military which made no mention of feces this time around.

Map of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) between North and South Korea

Pyongyang began sending the balloons over its border with South Korea in what it says was "tit-for-tat action" in response to anti-Pyongyang propaganda pamphlets sent over into North Korea from South Korean activists.

On May 29th, North Korean state-run media reported that the United States had launched an RC-135U reconnaissance plane from Japan near North Korea's southern border. The statement said the North has no choice but to take “Anti-DPRK” aerial spying by the US and "hostile forces" more seriously.

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