North Korea resumes sending trash-filled balloons across border
SpaceWar.com reports: “North Korea sent some 350 trash-filled balloons toward South Korea overnight, Seoul’s military said Tuesday, as back-and-forth provocations continue across a tense inter-Korean border. As of Tuesday morning, around 100 balloons carrying trash […]
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SpaceWar.com reports: “North Korea sent some 350 trash-filled balloons toward South Korea overnight, Seoul’s military said Tuesday, as back-and-forth provocations continue across a tense inter-Korean border.
As of Tuesday morning, around 100 balloons carrying trash and waste paper had landed in Seoul and the northern part of Gyeonggi Province, Seoul’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a text message to reporters.
An analysis of recovered balloons found they did not contain hazardous materials, the JCS said.
The latest launch marked the fifth time in the last month that North Korea has sent balloons filled with debris and even excrement, according to South Korean officials.
Seoul’s Unification Ministry told local media on Monday that parasites, such as roundworms and threadworms, believed to have originated in human excrement, were detected in earlier balloons…”
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